Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996

[^key-2049882c76ebeec4d6b9277b18d14065]: Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 3 para. 1 substituted (6.4.2023) by The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(3), 14(4)(a)(xi)

[^key-23e92b0b538a279bddf345e340cb1f4d]: Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 3 para. 1 omitted (6.4.2023) by virtue of The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(3), 14(4)(a)(xii)

[^key-9fbf12d181fc01247837e9930081ff70]: Sch. 3 Pt. 3 para. 2 omitted (6.4.2023) by virtue of The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(3), 14(4)(c)

[^key-1cc388f02a39a4ce2ac67ac6c9649b8a]: Words in reg. 10(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2024) by The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) (Amendment) and Gas Safety (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/322), regs. 1(1), 17 (with reg. 1(3))

[^key-e8a9f76a45dc46512b33a52e7dfb8189]: Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 table substituted (6.4.2025) by The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(a)(v) (as amended by S.I. 2023/320, regs. 1, 2)

Pipes used to convey biogas or gas made from biogas: transitional provisions

Transitional provisions: emergency reporting service provider safety case

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• (1) This regulation applies where, immediately before 6th April 2023, a person (“P”) has an accepted EHP safety case.

• (2) P’s accepted EHP safety case is to be treated, on and after 6th April 2023, as if it had been prepared pursuant to, and accepted by the Executive under, regulation 3(3A).

• (3) Accordingly, on 6th April 2023, P becomes the emergency reporting service provider for each network.

• (4) Regulation 4 applies in relation to P as if the requirement in paragraph (3) of that regulation to make a thorough review of the contents of its accepted EHP safety case every three years were a requirement to—

• (a) make a thorough review of the accepted EHP safety case by the end of the period of three years beginning with the day on which P last reviewed that safety case, and

• (b) at least every three years thereafter.

• (5) Nothing in this regulation prevents P from giving written notice for the purposes of regulation 3(3B) on or after 6th April 2023 in relation to any or all of the networks.

• (6) In this regulation “accepted EHP safety case” means a safety case prepared pursuant to, and accepted by the Executive under, paragraph 3 of exemption No. 8 of 2016 granted by the Executive in pursuance of its powers under regulation 11(1) of these Regulations on 5th September 2016 to National Grid Gas Distribution Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with the company number 10080864.

Exemptions

Repeals, revocations and amendment

Review of these Regulations

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• (1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

• (a) carry out a review of the regulatory provisions contained in these Regulations, as amended by the Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023;

• (b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

• (c) publish the report.

• (2) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015[^f00006] requires that a report must in particular—

• (a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory regime established by the regulatory provisions referred to in paragraph (1)(a),

• (b) assess the extent to which the objectives are achieved, and

• (c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate, and if so, the extent to which they could be achieved by a system which imposes less onerous regulatory provision.

• (3) The first report must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with 6th April 2023.

• (4) Subsequent reports must be published under this regulation at intervals not exceeding five years.

• (5) In this regulation “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).

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In this Schedule, the reference conditions are 15C and 1.01325 bar.