Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

• “the 1986 Act” means the Gas Act 1986;

• “contravene” includes fail to comply with;

• “Director” means the Director General of Gas Supply;

• “gas” means any substance which consists wholly or mainly of—

  1. (a)

     methane, ethane, propane, butane, hydrogen or carbon monoxide;

  2. (b)

     a mixture of two or more of those gases; or

  3. (c)

     a combustible mixture of one or more of those gases and air;

• “gas processing facility” means a facility which carries out gas processing operations;

• “gas processing operation” means any of the following operations, namely—

  1. (a)

     purifying, blending, odorising or compressing gas for the purpose of enabling it to be introduced into a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter or to be conveyed to an electricity generating station, a gas storage facility or any place outside Great Britain;

  2. (b)

     removing from gas for that purpose any of its constituent gases, or separating from gas for that purpose any oil or water; and

  3. (c)

     determining the quantity or quality of gas which is or is to be so introduced, or so conveyed, whether generally or by or on behalf of a particular person,

  and “process” in relation to gas shall be construed accordingly;

• “relevant premises” means the gas processing facility at the Lindholm Compressor Site, Vulcan Way, Bawtry Road, Hatfield Woodhouse, Doncaster DN7 6TE; and

• “relevant transporter” means any person, not being the holder of a licence under section 7 of the 1986 Act^f1 in respect of such conveyance, who conveys gas through pipes from the relevant premises for a distance not exceeding 16.093 kilometres to a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter, and “relevant transport” shall be construed accordingly.