# The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2011, Regulation 16: Consequential amendments of the Petroleum Act 1998 in respect of storage facilities


(1) The Petroleum Act 1998 is amended as follows.
(2) Omit section 17C (application of section 17D).
(3) Omit section 17D (access to offshore gas storage facilities).
(4) Omit section 17E (section 17D: supplemental).
(5) In section 17H (enforcement of certain duties in relation to access to pipelines and offshore gas storage facilities)—
(a) In subsection (1)—
(i) omit “with any notice under section 17D(11) or”;
(ii) omit “and the obligation to comply with any duty in section 17B(6) or section 17D(7)”;
(iii) for “duties” substitute “a duty”;
(iv) for “them” substitute “it”;
(b) omit subsection (4);
(c) change the section title to “Enforcement of duty in section 17GA”,
but this paragraph is subject to paragraph (7).
(6) In section 28(1) (interpretation) omit the definition of “offshore gas storage facility”.
(7) So far as section 17H would, but for the amendments made by paragraph (5), have effect in relation to a past breach, it continues to have effect in relation to that past breach as if those amendments had not been made.
(8) In paragraph (7) “past breach” means a failure before the coming into force of these Regulations to comply with—
(a) a duty under section 17D(1), (3), or (7);
(b) a notice under section 17D(11);
(c) a duty in section 17E(2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111513965/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-internal-markets-regulations-2011/regulation-16
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