Article 11 Conveyance of gas into the Stranraer pipeline system

(1)

Premier Transmission Limited (company registered number NI026421) (“the company”) is an exempt transporter when conveying gas through any pipeline which is connected to the SNIP for the purpose of conveying that gas into the Stranraer pipeline system provided the company complies with the conditions set out in paragraph (2).

(2)

The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) are—

(a)

that the company must notify the Secretary of State and the Authority as soon as reasonably practicable of any proposal of which it is aware which is likely to affect either the amount of gas that it is capable of conveying into the Stranraer pipeline system or the company’s ability to meet the gas security standard;

(b)

that the company must provide the Secretary of State and the Authority with a statement of its ability to meet the gas security standard by 30^th June each year in respect of the period of 12 months beginning on 1^st October of that year.

(3)

The gas security standard mentioned in paragraph (2) is the gas security standard set out in condition 16 of the standard conditions of gas transporter licences (Pipe-Line System Security Standards) as at 1^st March 2011 and for the purposes of this article any reference in that standard—

(a)

to the licensee is to be read as a reference to the company;

(b)

to the licensee’s pipe-line system is to be read as a reference to any pipeline which is connected to the SNIP and through which the company coveys gas for the purpose of conveying that gas into the Stranraer pipeline system.

(4)

In this article—

“the SNIP” means the Scotland to Northern Ireland natural gas transmission pipeline, an interconnector between Twynholm in Scotland and Ballylumford in Northern Ireland;
“the Stranraer pipeline system” means the pipeline system which conveys gas to premises in Stranraer in the county of Dumfries and Galloway.