{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-order-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-exemptions-order-1999/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Conditions of exemption",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 6 below, every relevant transporter shall provide the Director with the following particulars not less than 30 days before the date (“commencement date”) on which he intends to commence any relevant transport—\n(a) the commencement date;\n(b) the location of the relevant storage facility;\n(c) the maximum quantity of gas that the relevant storage facility is designed to store (“design capacity”); and\n(d) the maximum rate at which gas is designed to be conveyed from the relevant storage facility to a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter for a continuous period of 24 hours (“design flow rate”).\n(2) Whenever there is an increase or decrease of more than 10 per cent in the design capacity or design flow rate last notified to the Director, resulting from works carried out with a view to such increase or decrease, the relevant transporter shall provide the Director with particulars of such increase or decrease within 30 days of the completion of those works.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2639/article/5",
    "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."
}