{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-security-of-supply-and-network-codes-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2019/531",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-security-of-supply-and-network-codes-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Article 2 is amended as follows.\n(2) Renumber the existing text of Article 2 as paragraph 1.\n(3) In paragraph 1—\n(a) before point (1) insert—\n“(A1) ‘the Gas Regulation’ means Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on conditions for access to natural gas transmission networks ;\n(A2) ‘the Northern Ireland department’ means the Department for the Economy;”;\n(b) omit point (2);\n(c) in point (5) (definition of “protected customer”)—\n(i) for “Member State concerned” substitute “ Secretary of State ”;\n(ii) for “that Member State” substitute “ the United Kingdom ”;\n(d) omit point (6);\n(e) in point (7) (definition of “competent authority”)—\n(i) after “ ‘competent authority’” insert “ , in relation to a member State, ”;\n(ii) for “Member” substitute “ member ”;\n(iii) at the end insert “ as it applies in EU law ”;\n(f) in point (8) (definition of “national regulatory authority”), after “ ‘national regulatory authority’” insert “ , in relation to a member State, ”;\n(g) after point (8) insert—\n“(8A) ‘regulatory authority’—\n(a) in relation to Great Britain, means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority; and\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, means the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation.”\n(h) omit point (9); and\n(i) omit points (11) to (26).\n(4) After paragraph 1 insert—\n“2 For the purposes of this Regulation, the following expressions have the meanings given in the Gas Regulation—\n‘ancillary services’;\n‘customer’;\n‘distribution’;\n‘distribution system operator’;\n‘firm capacity’;\n‘interconnector’;\n‘interruptible capacity’;\n‘LNG facility’;\n‘LNG facility capacity’;\n‘natural gas undertaking’;\n‘storage capacity’;\n‘system’;\n‘system user’;\n‘technical capacity’;\n‘transmission’;\n‘transmission system operator’.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "The Gas Regulation is amended by S.I. 2018/1286 and S.I. 2019/530."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/531/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:01.424602+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."
}