{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-no-1-order-1996/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-no-1-order-1996/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/449",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Act 1986 (Exemptions) (No. 1) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-no-1-order-1996",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Scope of exemption",
  "text": "(1) Article 13 has effect where a public gas transporter arranges with any person (“the emergency shipper”) that—\n(i) in order to prevent or remedy a supply emergency that may arise after the making of the arrangements; or\n(ii) in order to remedy a supply emergency which exists at the time the arrangements are made,\nthe emergency shipper will, at the request of the public gas transporter, introduce gas into the pipe-line system operated by that transporter.\n(2) In this article “supply emergency” means an emergency endangering persons and arising from a loss of pressure in any pipe-line system (including part of any such system).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/449/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:29.000231+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."
}