Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 557
Gas
Pipe-lines
The Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (England) 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 the environment.
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, interpretation and application
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 6th April 2014.
(2) In these Regulations—
“gas transporter” has the meaning given by section 7(1) of the Gas Act 1986( 3 );
“the 1999 Regulations” means the Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999( 4 ).
(3) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.
(4) These Regulations do not apply to any pipe-line works which were commenced by a gas transporter, or for the execution of which a gas transporter invited tenders, before the date on which these Regulations come into force.
Amendment of the 1999 Regulations
2. In regulation 1(3) of the 1999 Regulations, after sub-paragraph (b) insert—
“ (c) for which development consent is required under section 31 of the Planning Act 2008, by virtue of those works falling within section 14(1)(f) of that Act. ” ( 5 )
Gregory Barker
Minister 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) .
1986 c. 44 ; section 7(1) was amended by section 76(1), (2) of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27) . By virtue of section 76(7) of that Act, existing references to a public gas transporter have effect as if they were references to a gas transporter.
S.I. 1999/1672 . Amended by section 73(2) (now repealed) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) and S.I.s 2007/1996 , 2011/1043 , 2011/1824 , 2013/755 , S.S.I. 1999/1 , 2008/202 and 2010/460 . Modified by paragraph 17 of Schedule 15 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, section 76(7) of the Utilities Act 2000, section 1(4) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16) and by S.I. 1999/416 .
2008 c. 29 . Section 14(1)(f) is qualified by section 20 of the Planning Act 2008; section 20 sets out what pipe-line works by a gas transporter are a nationally significant infrastructure project falling within section 14(1)(f) of that Act (and therefore require development consent under section 31).