S.I. No. 18/1923 - Gas (Charges Orders) Rules, 1923

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1923. No. 18.No. 18/1923: GAS (CHARGES ORDERS) RULES, 1923

APPLICATIONS FOR CHARGES ORDERS.

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

1. Application for an Order under section 1 of the Gas Regulation Act, 1920, shall be made to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Dublin.

II. The application shall state:—

(a) The standard or maximum price or prices per therm which the Undertakers applying for the Order (hereinafter called "the Undertakers") propose shall be substituted (in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Act) for the standard or maximum price or prices per 1,000 cubic feet authorised by the statutory or other provisions other than an Order issued under the Statutory Undertakings (Temporary Increase of Charges) Act, 1918, affecting the charges which may be made by the Undertakers;

(b) The Amendments which the Undertakers propose shall be made in any other existing statutory or other provisions affecting the charges which may be made for gas supplied by them;

(c) the additional charges (if any) which the Undertakers desire to be authorised to make in respect of gas supplied by means of prepayment meters.

III. The application shall be accompanied by the following documents:—

(a) A Schedule (in triplicate) showing in detail the cost to the Undertakers of supplying gas during the three preceeding completed years of working and a copy of the published accounts of the Undertakers for the same periods together with a statement of the price or prices charged for gas during each of those periods.

(b) A list of the enactments and other provisions requiring the Undertakers to supply gas of any particular illuminating or calorific value.

(c) A list of the statutory and other provisions affecting the charges to be made by the Undertakers.

IV. (1) Notice of the application shall be published in Iris Oifiguil, and in at least one newspaper circulating within the limits of supply of the Undertakers and shall also be served on the local authority. For the purposes of these Rules the expression "local authority" shall mean every county, county borough and urban district council the whole or any part of whose area is within or partly within the limits of supply of the Undertakers.

(2) The Notice shall state the standard or maximum price or prices per 1,000 cubic feet authorised by the enactments and other provisions other than an Order under the Statutory Undertakings (Temporary Increase of Charges) Act, 1918, relating to the Undertakers and the prices per therm which the Undertakers propose should be substituted therefor; and also the amendments which the Undertakers propose shall be made in any other existing statutory or other provisions affecting the charges which may be made for gas supplied by them and the additional charges per therm which the Undertakers desire to be authorised to make in respect of gas supplied by means of prepayment meters.

(3) The Notice shall also state that a copy of the application and of all the documents submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce therewith may be inspected, free of charge, at the office of the Undertakers within the limits of supply during office hours, that representations with regard to the application may be made to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce before a date to be fixed in the Notice, which shall be not less than 21 days after the date on which the publication and service of the Notice will be completed, and that a copy of such representations must at the same time be sent to the Undertakers. The Notice served on the local authority shall also state that a copy of the application and of all the documents submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce therewith may be obtained at the office of the Undertakers on payment of the usual charges for copying.

(4) As soon as possible after the publication and service have been completed a marked copy of Iris Oifiguil and newspaper containing the Notice and a certified copy of the Notice served on the local authority, endorsed with a list of the councils on which it has been served and the date of service, shall be forwarded to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

V. After the date mentioned in the Notice, the Undertakers shall furnish to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce their observations on any representations which have been made in accordance with the foregoing Rule IV. (3) and shall send a copy of such observations to the local authority or person making the representations.

VI. The fee payable in connection with the application shall be as specified in the Schedule to these Rules and a cheque for the appropriate amount, made payable to the Accountant, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, should 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 Undertakers.

VII. These Rules may be cited as the "Gas (Charges Orders) Rules, 1923," and shall take effect as 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 ORDERS, UNDER SECTION I. OF THE GAS REGULATION ACT, 1920.

Where the Undertakers supplied during the last complete year ended 31st December:—