{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-no-2-order-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-no-2-order-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3089",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Act 1986 (Exemptions) (No. 2) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-no-2-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1986 Act” means the Gas Act 1986;\n“contravene” includes fail to comply with;\n“Director” means the Director General of Gas Supply;\n“gas” means any substance which consists wholly or mainly of—\n(a) methane, ethane, propane, butane, hydrogen or carbon monoxide;\n(b) a mixture of two or more of those gases; or\n(c) a combustible mixture of one or more of those gases and air;\n“gas processing facility” means a facility which carries out gas processing operations;\n“gas processing operation” means any of the following operations, namely—\n(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;\n(b) removing from gas for that purpose any of its constituent gases, or separating from gas for that purpose any oil or water; and\n(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,\nand “process” in relation to gas shall be construed accordingly;\n“relevant premises” means the gas processing facility at the Lindholm Compressor Site, Vulcan Way, Bawtry Road, Hatfield Woodhouse, Doncaster DN7 6TE; and\n“relevant transporter” means any person, not being the holder of a licence under section 7 of the 1986 Act 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 7 was substituted by section 5 of the Gas Act 1995."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3089/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:29.393774+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."
}