- accounting information
means such accounting records as would be required by section 386 of the Companies Act 2006 in respect of each of the storage or (as the case may be) treatment activities undertaken by the owner of the facility if those activities were the only business undertaken by the owner and the owner were a person to whom that section applied;
- appeal
means an appeal under section 23B;
- appeal rules
means rules of procedure under paragraph 11;
- approved capital expenditure
has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the provisions relating to regional development grant.
- authorised supplier
means a person authorised by a licence or exemption to supply to any premises gas which has been conveyed to those premises through pipes;
- authorised transporter
means a person authorised by a licence or exemption to convey gas through pipes to any premises or to a pipe-line system operated by a gas transporter;
- British Gas Stock
has the same meaning as in section 50 of this Act.
- buy-out payment
means a payment—
- calorific value
has the meaning given by section 12(2) above;
- carbon emissions reduction target
means a target for the promotion of any of the following—
- certification grounds
has the meaning given by section 8G(2);
- certified
means certified bythe Authority under section 8F;
- Citizens Advice
means the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux;
- Citizens Advice Scotland
means the Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux;
- closed distribution system
means a system classified as a closed distribution system by the Authority under paragraph 12(2);
- code manager licence
means a licence under section 7AC;
- company
means a company (as defined in section 1(1) of the Companies Act 2006) that— (a) is limited by shares, and (b) has its registered office in Great Britain. • “remuneration” in relation to a director of a company— (a) means any form of payment, consideration or other benefit (including pension benefit), paid or due to or in respect of the director;
- compensation
means compensation that a regulated person is required to pay by a consumer redress order;
- complaints
includes complaints made directly to gas suppliers and gas transporters (or anyone carrying on activities on their behalf) and complaints to the Authority Citizens Advice or Citizens Advice Scotland.
- complete financial year
means a financial year ending with 31st March.
- compliance costs
means the total costs to gas suppliers of complying with home-heating cost reduction obligations that, in relation to any period, are imposed by order under section 33BD, and
- consumer
means a person who is supplied with gas conveyed to particular premises (in this Schedule referred to as his premises) by a public gas transporter;
- consumer redress order
means an order under subsection (2).
- consumers
includes both existing and future consumers.
- control
has the meaning given by section 8Q(1);
- costs relating to Scotland
means the total costs to gas suppliers of complying with obligations that, in relation to the same period, are imposed in relation to Scotland.
- customer
means a person who purchases gas for the person’s own consumption;
- debenture
includes debenture stock;
- declared calorific value
has the meaning given by section 12(2) above;
- designated electricity licence document
has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Electricity Act 1989;
- designated gas licence document
means a document that is— (a) maintained in accordance with the conditions of a licence for the purposes of section 5, and (b) designated under section 182 of the Energy Act 2023;
- designated regulatory function
means a function of the Authority or the Northern Ireland Authority conferred by— (a) a provision of assimilated law, or (b) a condition in a licence under section 7, 7ZA or 7A or Article 8 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2)), as that condition is modified from time to time on or after IP completion day, where that function was, immediately before IP completion day, one of its functions as a regulatory authority designated in accordance with Article 39 of the Gas Directive;
- distribution accounts
means accounting records in relation to the business (the “distribution business”) constituted by the distribution activities of the distribution exemption holder’s business that— (a) are sufficient to show and explain the transactions of the distribution business, separate from any other transactions of the distribution exemption holder’s business;
- distribution exemption holder
means a person who— (a) is carrying on an activity such as is mentioned in section 5(1)(a), the whole or part of which is also an activity of distribution within the meaning given by Article 2(5) of the Gas Directive;
- distribution system
means a pipe-line system by means of which the person who operates or has control of the system conveys gas in circumstances such that— (a) that person is thereby carrying on an activity such as is mentioned in section 5(1)(a);
- domestic supplier
means a gas supplier— (a) who is authorised, in accordance with the conditions of a licence, to supply gas to domestic premises;
- electricity licence
means a licence for an activity to which an order under section 56FA(1)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989 applies;
- electricity system operator licence
means a licence under section 6(1)(da) of the Electricity Act 1989;
- exempt distribution system
means a distribution system operated or controlled by a distribution exemption holder who is covered by an exemption granted to it in relation to that system;
- exemption
means an exemption under section 6A;
- exercise
means exercise directly or indirectly, and “exercisable” is to be interpreted accordingly;
- expression of interest
has the meaning given by paragraph 1(2);
- external electronic communications network
means a network which— (a) is an electronic communications network, within the meaning of section 32 of the Communications Act 2003;
- final order
means an order under this section other than a provisional order;
- gas
means— (a) any substance in a gaseous state which consists wholly or mainly of— (a) methane, ethane, propane, butane, hydrogen or carbon monoxide;
- gas fittings
means gas pipes and meters, and fittings, apparatus and appliances designed for use by consumers of gas for heating, lighting, motive power and other purposes for which gas can be used;
- gas interconnector
has the meaning given by section 5(8);
- gas producer
means a person who—
- gas production site
means a site on which a person carries on an activity by virtue of which the person is a gas producer within the meaning of section 7.
- gas supplier
includes a person authorised to supply gas by an exemption granted under section 6A of this Act or an exception contained in Schedule 2A to this Act;
- gas system planner licence
means a licence under section 7AA;
- gas transporter
has the meaning given by section 7(1) above;
- gas undertaking
has the meaning given by section 8Q;
- group
means the successor company and all of its subsidiaries taken together.
- high pressure pipe-line
means any pipe-line which has a design operating pressure exceeding 7 bar gauge;
- holding company
has the meaning given bysection 1159 of the Companies Act 2006;
- home-heating cost reduction target
has the meaning given by section 33BD(2)(a);
- house
includes any park or garden belonging to a house. 3 A person who is able to sell the house, building or factory (“the owner”) may serve a counter-notice requiring the authority to purchase the owner's interest in the house, building or factory. 4 A counter-notice under paragraph 3 must be served within the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice to treat was served. 5 On receiving a counter-notice the acquiring authority must decide whether to— a withdraw the notice to treat, b accept the counter-notice, or c refer the counter-notice to the Upper Tribunal. 6 The authority must serve notice of their decision on the owner within the period of 3 months beginning wit
- household customer
means a customer who purchases gas for consumption by the customer’s own household;
- information
includes accounts, estimates and returns;
- kilowatt hour
means 3.6 megajoules;
- land
includes any right over land;
- licence
means a licence under section 7, 7ZA, 7A, 7AA, 7AB or 7AC and “licence holder” shall be construed accordingly;
- main commercial conditions
means— (a) in the case of a storage facility, such information as would enable a potential applicant for a right to have gas or liquid gas stored in the facility to make a reasonable assessment of the cost of, or the method of calculating the cost of, acquiring that right;
- main contractual conditions
means any conditions of the contract which relate to a matter mentioned in any of paragraphs (b), (c) and (f) to (j) of sub-paragraph (2).
- microgeneration
has the same meaning as in the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006;
- modification condition
means a condition requiring or otherwise providing for the making of modifications to the conditions of a licence.
- modifications
includes additions, alterations and omissions and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
- modify
includes fail to incorporate and “modification” shall be construed accordingly.
- navigation authority
means any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, authorised by or under any enactment to work, maintain, conserve, improve or control any canal or other inland navigation, navigable river, estuary, harbour or dock;
- new licensable activities
means one or more activities which are the subject of an order under section 41HA(1)(a).
- Northern Ireland Authority
means the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation;
- notice
means notice in writing;
- parent undertaking
has the meaning given by section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006.
- penalty
means a penalty imposed on a regulated person under section 30A.
- person from a country outside the United Kingdom
means a person the Authority thinks is from a country outside the United Kingdom;
- pipe-line
has the same meaning as in the Pipe-lines Act 1962.
- pipe-line system
includes the pipes and any associated apparatus comprised in that system.
- planning and forecasting functions of the Independent System Operator and Planner
has the meaning given by section 5(10A).
- plant
includes any equipment, apparatus or appliance;
- prescribed
means prescribed by regulations made, unless the context otherwise requires, by the Secretary of State;
- private gas supplier
means a person who is authorised by section 6 of the said Act of 1986, or by an authorisation under section 8 of that Act, to supply gas through pipes to consumers’ premises.”
- providing a smart meter communication service
has the meaning given in section 5(11) above, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
- provisional order
means an order under this section which, if not previously confirmed under subsection (4) above, will cease to have effect at the end of such period (not exceeding three months) as is determined by or under the order;
- public gas supplier
has the same meaning as in Part I of the Gas Act 1986;
- public service obligation
has the same meaning as in section 19D.
- railway authority
means any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, authorised by any enactment to construct, work or carry on a railway;
- regional development grant
means a grant under Part I of the Industry Act 1972 or Part II of the Industrial Development Act 1982 and “approved capital expenditure” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the provisions relating to regional development grant.
- regulated person
means a person who is one or more of the following— (a) a licence holder;
- relevant application
means an application under paragraph 1 or 2.
- relevant consent
has the same meaning as in paragraph 11 above.
- relevant date
means—
- relevant information
means information relating to the supply of gas;... • “smart meter” means— (a) a gas meter which can send and receive information using an external electronic communications network;
- relevant licence
means a licence under section 7(2) or 7ZA.
- relevant main
has the same meaning as in section 10 below;
- relevant meter
means a meter of a kind prescribed by the order;
- relevant national authority
means any of the following— (a)...
- relevant order
means—
- relevant producer or supplier
has the meaning given by section 8Q;
- relevant times
means times when the hydrogen production allocation body holds a licence under section 7AA.
- securities
has the same meaning as in Part II of this Act.
- senior officer
means— (a) in relation to a company, a director;
- service pipe
means a pipe, other than a distribution main of a gas transporter, which is used for the purpose of conveying gas from such a main to any premises, and includes part of any such pipe;
- shareholder right
means a right, conferred by the holding of a share in the company’s share capital— (a) to vote at general meetings of the company;
- shares
includes stock;
- significant transaction
means— (a) any transaction which relates to rights to have gas or liquid gas stored in a storage facility, or (as the case may be) treated in an LNG import or export facility;
- smart meter
means— (a) a gas meter which can send and receive information using an external electronic communications network;
- smart meter communication licence
has the meaning given to that term in section 7AB(1);
- specified
means specified in the order.
- storage facility
means a facility in Great Britain (including the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain and the sea in any area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964) for either or both of the following— (a) the storage in porous strata, or in cavities in strata, of gas which has been, or will be, conveyed in a pipeline system operated by the holder of a licence under section 7 or 7ZA;
- subordinate legislation
has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978;
- subsidiary
has the meaning given by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985;
- supply exemption holder
means a person who— (a) is carrying on the activity mentioned in section 5(1)(b);
- tender exercise
means the steps taken in accordance with regulations with a view to determining to whom a particular licence is to be granted.
- the 1972 Act
means the Gas Act 1972;
- the 2010 Amending Decision
means Commission Decision 2010/685/EU of 10 November 2010 amending Chapter 3 of Annex I to Regulation 2009/715/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks;
- the 2012 Amending Decision
means Commission Decision 2012/490/EU of 24 August 2012 amending Annex I to Regulation 2009/715/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks;
- the 2013 Amending Regulation
means Regulation 2013/347/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2013 on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure and repealing Decision 2006/1364/EC and amending Regulations 2009/713/EC, 2009/714/EC and 2009/715/EC;
- the 2019 Amending Directive
means Directive (EU) 2019/692 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 amending Directive 2009/73/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas;
- the Administrator
means—
- the Agency
means the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators established under the Agency Regulation;
- the Agency Regulation
means Regulation (EU) 2019/942 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (recast), and “predecessor”, in relation to that Regulation, means Regulation (EC) 713/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing an Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators;
- the appointed day
has the meaning given by section 3 above;
- the appropriate proportion
means such proportion as properly—
- the appropriate supplier
means—
- the Authority
means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority;
- the CMA
means the Competition and Markets Authority;
- the concise guidance
means any summary such as is mentioned in section 19A(1)(b) of that Act which is so published.
- the Corporation
means the British Gas Corporation;
- the court
means—
- the designated regulatory objectives
means the objectives set out in Article 40(c) to (h) of the Gas Directive but read with the following modifications— (a) in Article 40(c), for the words from “between” to the end substitute “, including enabling the development of appropriate cross-border transmission capacities to meet demand;
- the energy consumer guidance
means any guidance such as in mentioned in section 19A(1)(a) of the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 which is published under that section;
- the Gas Directive
means Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55/EC, as amended by the 2019 Amending Directive;
- the Gas Regulation
means Regulation 2009/715/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks and repealing Regulation 2005/1775/EC, as amended by the 2010 Amending Decision, the 2012 Amending Decision and the 2013 Amending Regulation;
- the prescribed rate
means the rate prescribed for the purposes of section 86 of the Taxes Management Act 1970.”
- the relevant authority
means—
- the relevant consent
has the same meaning as in paragraph 11 above.
- the relevant date
means the date on which section 143 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 came into force.
- the relevant five years
means the five years immediately preceding the year in which the investment in question is made or proposed to be made.
- the relevant year
means the last complete financial year of the Corporation ending before the transfer date;
- the successor company
has the meaning given by section 49(1) above;
- the transfer date
has the meaning given by section 49(1) above;
- the transitional period
has the meaning given by section 57(1) above.
- the Uniform Network Code
means the document of that title required to be prepared pursuant to Standard Special Condition A11 of licences granted under section 7 of this Act.
- transfer
includes any form of transfer or assignment or, in Scotland, assignation;
- transmission
has the meaning given by Article 2(3) of the Gas Directive;
- vertically integrated undertaking
has the meaning given by Article 2(20) of that Directive.
- working day
means any day other than—
- year
means any year ending with 9th August.