Article 2

The Gas Safety Regulations 1972^f1 are hereby modified as follows:

(a)

in regulation 2(1) —

(i)

in the definition of “meter control”, for the words “the supply of gas from the Area Board to the consumer” there shall be substituted the words “the conveyance of gas to the consumer’s premises”;

(ii)

in the definition of “primary meter”, for the words after “the index reading of which” there shall be substituted the words “indicates the quantity of gas conveyed to the premises by a public gas transporter;”;

(iii)

after that definition, there shall be inserted the following definition —

““public gas transporter” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Gas Act 1986;”; and

(iv)

in the definition of “service pipe”, for the words “the Area Board” there shall be substituted the words “a public gas transporter”;

(b)

in regulation 2(2) —

(i)

for the words “gas supplied by an Area Board to a consumer” there shall be substituted the words “gas conveyed to the premises of a consumer by a public gas transporter”; and

(ii)

for the words “so supplied” there shall be substituted the words “so conveyed”;

(c)

in regulation 3(1) —

(i)

after the words “No person” there shall be inserted the words “other than the owner or occupier of the premises or any person engaged by him for the purpose”; and

(ii)

for the words “an Area Board”, in each place where they appear, there shall be substituted the words “a public gas transporter”;

(d)

in regulation 52 —

(i)

for the words “An Area Board supplying gas” there shall be substituted the words “A public gas transporter conveying gas”; and

(ii)

for the words “at their own expense” there shall be substituted the words “at his own expense”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1972/1178, references in these Regulations to Area Boards have effect as if there were substituted references to British Gas plc — see paragraph 19 of Schedule 6 to the Gas Act 1972 (c. 60), section 49 of, and paragraph 34 of Schedule 8 to, the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44) and S.I. 1986/1317.