Gas Act, 2001 (Act No. 48 of 2001)RulesGas Act Rules, 2021Chapter 4 : Complaints, Investigations, Inspections and Inquiries20. Inspection of and enquiry into licensed activities |
| (1) | Licensees must at all reasonable times permit a person described in sub-rule (3) to enter any property on which a licensed activity is taking place and inspect any facility, equipment, machinery, book, account or other document found thereat; and furnish him/her with any such information as the Energy Regulator may consider necessary for monitoring compliance with or proper application of the Act. |
| (2) | On request, licensees must verify the accuracy of any information furnished under sub-rule (1) under oath or by affirmation to enable the Energy Regulator to properly and reliably assess it in connection with the inspection concerned. |
| (3) | The person referred to in sub-rule (1) must be a person duly authorised by the Energy Regulator for that purpose in the form specified in Annexure I; which s/he must show to an owner, operator or the person in charge of the facility or activity being inspected upon request. |
| (4) | A licensee may allow any authorised person to accompany it on any vehicular and airborne inspection of the licensee's property on which a licensed activity takes place. |
| (5) | authorised person described in sub-rule (3) must adhere to all health and safety measures applicable in the licensed premises under inspection. |
| (6) | When an authorised person needs to remove any item that is the subject of the inspection, s/he shall, where reasonably possible, take a copy of such item rather than its original. |
| (7) | If an authorised person removes an original item or copies thereof from any property on which a licensed activity is taking place, for further inspection, then s /he must provide the licensee with a detailed list of such items including a full description and a serial number or file number of each item, wherever applicable. |
| (8) | The licensee must within 30 days of receiving the list contemplated in sub-rule (7) above, inform the Energy Regulator of the information in the list that it regards as non-generic, confidential, personal, commercially sensitive or proprietary in nature, by completing the form specified in Annexure A and providing all information specified therein. |
| (9) | All original items contemplated in sub-rule (7) above, will be returned to the licensee as soon as practicable after the Energy Regulator has concluded its further inspection on them. |