Commentary on Sections Part 2: Security of Energy Supplies Chapter 3: Upstream Petroleum Infrastructure Section 89: Minor, consequential and supplemental provision
253.This section, and Schedule 2 to the Act, provide for various matters which are consequential or supplemental to the main provisions of this Chapter.
254.The Schedule amends the parts of the Petroleum Act 1998 and the Pipelines Act 1962 which set out the current regime for third party access to offshore pipelines, and for onshore pipelines, respectively, so that they no longer apply to upstream petroleum infrastructure within the scope of this Chapter. They do however continue in effect so far as other pipelines are concerned (in particular, the 1962 Act continues in effect with respect to onshore pipelines which are not upstream petroleum pipelines). The Schedule therefore provides amendments which are necessary to ensure that the new regime does not conflict with the existing regime.
255.The Schedule also provides for the repeal of certain provisions of the Gas Act 1995 and the Energy Act 2008, which are entirely subsumed by the new provision in this Chapter.