{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2AA/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2AA/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/44",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2AA/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a distribution exemption holder is under a duty to give access to a third party supplier under paragraph 2(3), (6) or (9) or 3(12)(a).\n(2) The third party supplier, or the customer who served the notice under paragraph 2(1), may require a connection to be made between the distribution exemption holder’s distribution system and—\n(a) the premises mentioned in paragraph 1(1)(a), or\n(b) a pipe-line system operated or controlled by—\n(i) a gas transporter, or\n(ii) another distribution exemption holder.\n(3) The distribution exemption holder must, if required to make a connection pursuant to sub-paragraph (2) either—\n(a) connect the premises or pipe-line system to its distribution system and supply and lay any pipe that may be necessary for that purpose; or\n(b) where the distribution exemption holder and the person requiring the connection have agreed that a person other than the distribution exemption holder is to supply and lay any pipe that may be necessary for the purpose of connection, connect the premises or pipe-line system to its distribution system once that pipe has been supplied and laid.\n(4) The duty under sub-paragraph (3) must be performed in accordance with such terms as are agreed under paragraphs 8 and 9, or paragraph 10, for so long as the connection is required.\n(5) In this paragraph and paragraphs 8 to 10—\n(a) any reference to a distribution exemption holder connecting any premises or pipe-line system includes a reference to maintaining the connection;\n(b) any reference to requiring a connection includes a reference to requiring the connection to be maintained;\n(c) any reference to supplying or laying a pipe includes a reference to the supply or laying of a pipe either by the installation of a new one or by the modification of an existing one; and\n(d) any reference to a pipe includes a reference to any apparatus ancillary to the pipe.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 2AA, 2AB inserted (10.11.2011) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2704), regs. 1(1), 20(3), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/44/schedule/2AA/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:56:01.836902+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."
}