# The Gas (Exemptions) Order 2011, Article 21: Emergency shipper’s exemption


(1) A person is an exempt shipper when arranging with a gas transporter for gas to be introduced into a pipeline system operated by that transporter at the request of that transporter for the purpose of—
(a) preventing or remedying a supply emergency that might arise after the making of the arrangements; or
(b) remedying a supply emergency which exists at the time the arrangements are being made.
(2) In this article “supply emergency” means an emergency endangering persons and arising from a loss of pressure in any pipeline system (or any part thereof).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/232/article/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/gas-exemptions-order-2011/article-21
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