{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-8D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-8D.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/8D",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8D",
  "heading": "Report where applicant connected with a country outside the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies if the Department is notified by the Authority under Article 8C(2) that an application has been made by, or nominating as an independent system operator, a person from a country outside the United Kingdom or a person controlled by a person from a country outside the United Kingdom.\n(2) The Department must prepare a report on whether the security of gas supplies in the United Kingdom ... would be put at risk by the certification of the applicant.\n(3) In preparing the report, the Department must take into account—\n(a) any relevant international law; and\n(b) any relevant agreement between the government of the United Kingdom and the government of the ... country in question.\n(4) The Department must send the report to the Authority within the 6 weeks beginning with the day on which the notification under Article 8C(2) is received by it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 8B-8L inserted (15.4.2011) by Gas and Electricity (Internal Markets) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/155), reg. 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 8D(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/530), regs. 1(1), 108(3) (with reg. 109) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 3(31)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 8D(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/530), regs. 1(1), 108(4) (with reg. 109) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 3(31)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in art. 8D(3)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/530), regs. 1(1), 108(5) (with reg. 109) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 3(31)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 8D heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/530), regs. 1(1), 108(2) (with reg. 109) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 3(31)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/275/article/8D",
    "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."
}