National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007

F183[(da) if the person concerned has agreed to the service of notices by means of an electronic communication (within the meaning assigned bysection 2of theElectronic Commerce Act 2000) to that person (being an addressee within the meaning assigned by that section) and provided that there is a facility to confirm receipt of electronic mail and that such receipt has been confirmed, then by that means;]

(e) if the person giving the notice considers that notice should be given immediately and a fax machine is located at an address mentioned in paragraph (b) or (d), by sending it by fax to that machine but only if the sender’s fax machine generates a message confirming successful transmission of the total number of pages of the notice.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a company registered under the Companies Acts is deemed to be ordinarily resident at its registered office, and every other body corporate and every unincorporated body is deemed to be ordinarily resident at its principal office or place of business.

68. F184[Oil Emergency Plan

68.—(1) Subject tosubsection (4), the Minister shall prepare a contingency plan (in this Act referred to as the "Oil Emergency Plan"), to be implemented in the event of an oil supply disruption.

(2) The Agency, each oil company and oil consumer, and such public bodies as the Minister considers appropriate, shall assist and co‑operate with the Minister in the preparation of the Oil Emergency Plan and the response to, an oil supply disruption.

(3) The Agency and each oil company and oil consumer shall, if so directed by the Minister, furnish to the Minister such information as he or she may require in respect of the preparation of the Oil Emergency Plan and response to an oil supply disruption.

(4) The Oil Emergency Plan shall include:

(a) such measures as the Minister considers appropriate to provide for mitigation against and preparedness for an oil supply disruption, including in relation to the maintenance of oil stocks in accordance withsection 32;

(b) measures to monitor the availability of petroleum products in the State;

(c) procedures for consultation between the Minister, such public bodies as the Minister considers appropriate, the Agency and oil companies and oil consumers in relation to the implementation of the Oil Emergency Plan;

(d) procedures for the timely release of oil stocks by the Minister wheresection 35applies;

(e) such measures, including in relation to the consumption of road transport fuel, to conserve petroleum products as the Minister, following consultation with such public bodies as the Minister considers appropriate, may determine;

(f) such measures as the Minister considers appropriate to ensure that supplies of petroleum products to such entities as are deemed by the Minister, following consultation with such other Ministers as the Minister considers appropriate, to be providing a critical service in the State are, in so far as practicable, protected.

(5) The Minister shall, when preparing the Oil Emergency Plan, have regard to Article 20 of the Council Directive.

(6) The Minister may, from time to time, review the Oil Emergency Plan and, as he or she considers necessary, prepare a new Oil Emergency Plan.]

69. F185[Register

69.—(1) The Minister shall, as soon as may be after the coming into operation of this section, establish and maintain a register of oil companies to be known as the Petroleum Register, and referred to in this section as the "register".

(2) The register shall be in such form (including electronic form) as the Minister considers appropriate, and shall contain such particulars as may, from time to time, be prescribed.

(3) For the purposes of the register, each oil company shall, within one month of a request in that behalf by the Minister and, in any event not later than 30 July in each year, furnish, in a manner prescribed, the following to the Minister:

(a) the name and address in the State of the company;

(b) contact details for the company, including an up to date e-mail address and telephone number.

(4) The Minister may, from time to time, request from an oil company such further information in relation to the nature of the business conducted by the company as the Minister considers appropriate and the company shall, within one month after the date of the request, furnish the information to the Minister in the manner requested by the Minister.

(5) A person is guilty of an offence under this section if the person—

(a) fails to furnish the information in such form and containing such particulars as is required undersubsection (3)within 3 months after the date of a request by the Minister or after 30 July in each year, the information in such form and containing such particulars as is required under that provision,

(b) fails to furnish within one month after the date of a request from the Minister undersubsection (4), the information in such form and containing such particulars as is required under that provision, or

(c) furnishes information undersubsection (3)or(4)that is false or misleading in a material respect and that the person knows is false or misleading.]

70. F186[Provision of information by Minister to Minister for Transport

70.—(1) The Minister shall, at the request of the Minister for Transport, and may, as he or she considers appropriate, provide information to the Minister for Transport relating to:

(a) returns made by renewable transport fuel obligation account holders pursuant to regulations made by the Minister undersection 44U;

(b) the prosecution of offences by the Minister or the Agency undersection 44U;

(c) the performance by the Minister of his or her functions undersections 44Oand44P.]