Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

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

• “contravene” includes fail to comply with;

• “convey” does not include the subjecting of gas to any gas processing operations carried out in any gas processing facility before gas conveyed from a relevant storage facility enters a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter;

• “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 any facility which carries out gas processing operations;

• “gas processing operations” 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;

  2. (b)

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

• “relevant storage facility” means any facility used wholly or mainly for the purpose of storing gas, but does not include a facility used for storing gas in natural porous strata underground; 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 a relevant storage facility 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.