Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 529
Gas
The Gas Transit (EEC Requirements) (Revocation and Saving) Regulations 2014
Made
6th March 2014
Laid before Parliament
10th March 2014
Coming into force
6th April 2014
The Secretary of State has been designated( 1 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ) in relation to energy and energy sources.
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gas Transit (EEC Requirements) (Revocation and Saving) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 6th April 2014.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the 1992 Regulations” means the Gas Transit (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1992 ( 3 );
“gas transit contract” means a contract within the meaning given by the 1992 Regulations, which was concluded pursuant to those Regulations.
Revocation
2. Subject to regulation 3, the 1992 Regulations are revoked.
Saving
3. Regulations 1, 2, 5 and 6 of the 1992 Regulations continue to have effect in relation to any gas transit contract which is still in force.
Verma
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Energy and Climate Change
6th March 2014
1972 c. 68 ; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) .
S.I. 1992/1190 ; relevant amendments are section 3(2) of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27) , S.I. 2009/229 and S.I. 2011/1043 .
OJ L 147, 12.06.1991, p37.
OJ L 176, 15.07.2003, p57.