{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1965/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1965/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/36",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1965",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The applicantshall publish in two successive weeks in the Gazette, and in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality of the storage area, a notice of the submission of the proposals to the Minister, naming a place in the locality where copies of the proposals, and of the accompanying map, can be inspected, describing the surface area of the storage and protective areas, and stating the nature and volume of gas proposed to be stored and the minimum depth below the surface of the ground of the stratum in which it is to be stored.\n(2) The applicantshall serve a notice containing all the particulars in the notice published under the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, and such further information as the Minister may direct,—\n(a) on every local planning authority, every local authority who are not a local planning authority and everyriver authority withinauthority and every local authority who are not a local planning authority, being, in either case, an authority within whose area any part of the storage area or protective area lies, and\n(b) on all statutory water undertakers within whose limits of supplyarea any part of the storage area or protective area lies, or who are holders of a statutory licence to abstract water within either of those areas, and\n(bb) on the Environment Agency if any part of the storage area or protective area is in England, and on the Natural Resources Body for Wales if any part of either of those areas is in Wales, and\n(c) on such other bodies or individuals as the Minister may direct.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3), Sch. 7 para. 6(26)(a), Sch. 8 para. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words from “authority and every” to “within” substituted (E.W.) for the words from “authority, every” to “within” by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190(1), Sch. 25 para. 32(6)(a) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70, SIF 81:1), Sch. 29 Pt. II para. 20(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word “area” substituted (E.W.) for words “limits of supply” by Water Act 1989 (c.15, SIF 130), s. 190(1), Sch. 25 para. 32(6)(b)(with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4(2)(bb) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 37(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/36/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:43.619667+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}