{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-order-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-order-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2639",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Act 1986 (Exemptions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-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“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;\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 any facility which carries out gas processing operations;\n“gas processing operations” 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;\n(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\n(c) determining the quantity or quality of gas which is or is to be so introduced;\n“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\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 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 7 was substituted by section 5(1) of the Gas Act 1995."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2639/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:50:10.023376+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."
}