Gas Act, 2001 (Act No. 48 of 2001)

Notices

Gas Act Rules, 2009

Chapter 2 : Applications and Objections to Licence Applications

7. Application for a licence
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Pre licence application procedure

 

(1)
(a)An applicant for a licence must, where applicable and in accordance with rule 4, request the confidential treatment of information to be submitted as part of an application for a licence prior to officially submitting the application for consideration by the Energy Regulator.
(b)Where a request for confidential treatment of information to be submitted as part of a licence application has been made, the applicant must officially submit its licence application only once a decision of the Energy Regulator regarding the request has been communicated to it.

 

Form, manner and content

 

(2)An application for a licence must be made in writing, in the form specified in Annexure B and must contain all information specified therein.

 

(3)The application contemplated in subrule (2) above must be accompanied by a non-confidential version of the application compiled in accordance with the decision of the Energy Regulator made in terms of rule 4 of these rules.

 

(4)Based on the Energy Regulator's assessment and evaluation of an application, an applicant may, in accordance with section 18(b) of the Act, be requested by the Energy Regulator to alter its application.

 

(5)The official date of an application shall be the date on which the applicant submits all required information specified in these rules to the Energy Regulator.

 

(6)The Energy Regulator will, within 14 days of receipt of an application, inform an applicant in writing whether or not the application meets the application requirements specified in these rules.

 

(7)An application for a licence, which does not contain all the required information specified in these rules, will be considered incomplete. If an application is incomplete, the Energy Regulator will issue the applicant with a Notice of an Incomplete Licence Application (Annexure C).