Regulation 5 Transitional provisions

In the case of any consultation required to be carried out by the Authority under section 33BAA of the Gas Act 1986 (as inserted into that Act by section 92 of the Act) where that consultation is commenced prior to the appointed time, consultation with those persons identified by section 7(1) of the Gas Act 1986^f1 as “public gas transporters” shall be regarded as the consultation required by paragraph (a) of section 33BAA(4) in so far as that provision requires consultation with “gas transporters”.

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f1: Section 7 of the Gas Act 1986 is to be amended by section 76(1) and (2) of the Act. However, at the time of the making of these Regulations section 76(1) and (2) of the Act has not been brought into force and, therefore, the reference to section 7(1) of the Gas Act 1986 is to the provisions in section 7(1) as originally enacted and subsequently amended by section 5 of the Gas Act 1995 (c. 45).