Article 3 Responsibility for the security of gas supply

United Kingdom

The security of gas supply shall be the shared responsibility of natural gas undertakings F1, the Secretary of State, the Northern Ireland department and the regulatory authority within their respective areas of activity and competence.

F2... F3The Secretary of State may delegate specific tasks set out in this Regulation to other bodies F4, including the Northern Ireland department. Where F5the Secretary of State delegates the task of declaring any of the crisis levels referred to in Article 11(1), F6the Secretary of State shall do so only to a public authority, a transmission system operator or a distribution system operator. Delegated tasks shall be performed under the supervision of the F7Secretary of State and shall be specified in the preventive action plan and in the emergency plan.

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When implementing the measures provided for in this Regulation, F9the Secretary of State shall establish the roles and responsibilities of the different actors concerned in such a way as to ensure F10an approach which involvesF11... the relevant natural gas undertakings, electricity undertakings where appropriate, and industry F12....

F135.

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F148.

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Art. 3(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Words in Art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4: Words in Art. 3(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5: Words in Art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6: Words in Art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F7: Words in Art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F8: Art. 3(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F9: Words in Art. 3(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F10: Words in Art. 3(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F11: Words in Art. 3(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(5)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F12: Words in Art. 3(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(5)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F13: Art. 3(5)-(7) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/531), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F14: Art. 3(8) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas (Powers to Make Subordinate Legislation) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1286), regs. 1(2)(b), 22; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)