GAS

APPLICATIONS FOR AMENDING ORDERS.

THE GAS (AMENDING ORDERS) RULES, 1923, DATED 5TH OCTOBER, 1923, MADE BY THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE WITH RESPECT TO APPLICATIONS FOR AMENDING ORDERS UNDER SUBSECTION (3) OF SECTION 1 OF THE GAS REGULATION ACT, 1920 (10 & 11 GEO. 5, C. 28).

1. Application for an Amending Order for revising the powers of charging authorised by an Order made under Section 1 of the Gas Regulation Act, 1920, may be made to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, by the undertakers of the original Order, or by a local authority, or, where the local authority are the Undertakers, by twenty consumers. The application should be made by letter addressed to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Dublin.

2. When the applicants are themselves the Undertakers the procedure to be followed shall be that prescribed in respect of applications for original Orders in the Gas (Charges Orders) Rules, 1923, references therein to a standard or maximum price per thousand cubic feet being read as applying to the standard or maximum price per therm authorised by the original Order. Rules 3 to 6 hereof, both inclusive, shall not then apply.

3. When the Applicants are not the Undertakers, not less than twenty-eight days' preliminary notice of the intended application shall be given in writing by the local authority or twenty consumers, as the case may be, to the Undertakers and to all the local authorities in the area of supply of the Undertakers.

4. An application for an Amending Order shall be accompanied by the following documents:—

(a) A statement in duplicate, showing by reference in detail to the published accounts of the Undertakers the alterations in the costs of the production and supply of gas by the Undertakers, upon which the application is founded.

(b) Proof of the service of the preliminary notices required by Rule 3.

5. The applicants shall, at the time of making the application to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce—

(i) inform all the parties upon whom the preliminary notice was served of the fact that an application is being made;

(ii) furnish the said parties with a copy of the statement referred to in Rule 4 (a), and

(iii) notify them that any representations may be made to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce within twenty-one days and that copies of any such representations should also be sent to the Applicants.

6. After expiry of the period referred to in Rule 5 the Applicants shall furnish to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce their observations on any representations which have been made and shall transmit a copy thereof to the parties making the representations.

7. The fee payable in connection with an application for an Amending Order shall be in accordance with the scale specified in the Schedule to these Rules, and a cheque for the appropriate amount made payable to the Accountant, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, shall accompany the application.

In addition any extraordinary expenses incurred by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in connection with a local inquiry into the application, or otherwise, will be payable by the Applicants, but the fee will include the costs which the Ministry may incur in connection with the advertisement of the application where the Applicants are not the Undertakers.

8. For the purposes of these Rules the term "local authority" shall mean every county, county borough and urban district council the whole or any part of whose area is within the limits of supply of the Undertakers.

9. These Rules may be cited as the Gas (Amending Orders) Rules, 1923, and shall take effect from the date hereof.

Dated this Fifth day of October, 1923.

(Signed) GORDON CAMPBELL,

Secretary to the Ministry of

Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

SCALE OF FEES FOR AMENDING ORDERS UNDER SECTION 1 OF THE GAS REGULATION ACT, 1920.

Where the Undertakers in respect of whom it is proposed that an Amending Order shall be made supplied during the last complete year ended 31st December:—