{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-59.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/275",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/59",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Notification of abandonment, cesser of use and beginning or resumption of use of pipe-lines or lengths thereof",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in any of the following events, namely—\n(a) the beginning of the use of a pipe-line or a length thereof;\n(b) the abandonment of a pipe-line or a length thereof;\n(c) the expiration of 3 years from the date on which a pipe-line or a length thereof was last used;\n(d) the resumption of the use of a pipe-line or a length thereof after the abandonment of the line or length (as the case may be) or after the expiration of 3 years from the date on which it was last used,\nthe owner of the line shall, within 2 weeks after the happening of the event, give to the Department notice thereof specifying the date on which it happened and the line or length in question.\n(2) Where a pipe-line or a length thereof is abandoned after the date on which the line or length (as the case may be) was last used but before the expiration of 3 years from that date, it shall not be necessary to give, under paragraph (1), notice of the expiration of that period.\n(3) A person who fails to comply with paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/275/article/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:12.938161+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."
}