{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-exemptions-order-2011/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-exemptions-order-2011/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/232",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas (Exemptions) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-exemptions-order-2011",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Conveyance of gas from gas facilities and Lindholme",
  "text": "(1) A person (“A”) who conveys gas over a distance not exceeding 16.093 kilometres from—\n(a) a gas storage facility; or\n(b) the Lindholme plant,\nto a pipeline system operated by a gas transporter (“B”) is an exempt transporter provided A complies with the conditions set out in paragraph (2).\n(2) The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) that, not less than thirty days before undertaking such a conveyance of gas (“a relevant conveyance”), A must notify the Authority of the date on which the relevant conveyance is intended to commence and—\n(i) where the gas is to be conveyed from a gas storage facility, of the maximum amount of gas which the facility is capable of storing (the facility’s “storage capacity”) and the maximum rate at which gas can be conveyed from that facility over a twenty-four hour period (the facility’s “storage flow rate”) as at the date of the notification,\n(ii) where the gas is to be conveyed from the Lindholme plant, of the maximum amount of gas which that plant is capable of processing (the plant’s “processing capacity”) as at the date of the notification;\n(b) that where, before the relevant conveyance commences (or, it having commenced, before it ceases), A comes to realise—\n(i) in the case of gas to be (or being) conveyed from a gas storage facility, that the facility’s storage capacity or storage flow rate has increased or decreased by more than ten per cent since the notification under sub-paragraph (a) was given (or where a notification has been given under this sub-paragraph, since that notification),\n(ii) in the case of gas to be (or being) conveyed from the Lindholme plant, that the plant’s processing capacity has increased or decreased by more than ten per cent since the notification under sub-paragraph (a) was given (or where a notification has been given under this sub-paragraph, since that notification),\nA must notify the Authority as soon as is reasonably practicable of the details of that increase or decrease;\n(c) that A must comply, as soon as is reasonably practicable, with any direction given by the Secretary of State which is relevant.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), paragraphs (2) to (4) of article 12 apply in relation to a relevant conveyance in the same way as they apply in relation to a conveyance of gas described in paragraph (1) of that article; and references in paragraphs (2) to (4) of article 12 to A and B, and to a relevant conveyance, are to be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/232/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:34.900162+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."
}