The Gas (Underground Storage) (Certificates) (England and Wales) Regulations 1967
Under section 5 of the Gas Act 1965 the consent of the Minister of Power is required to the carrying out of mining, boring and other operations below prescribed depths in the area used for the underground storage of gas by a gas authority and in a surrounding protective area. Section 8 provides that if the Minister refuses his consent, or grants consent subject to conditions, compensation is to be paid by the gas authority for expenditure rendered abortive or loss or damage caused by that decision. Section 9 makes similar provision for compensation in cases where the Minister subsequently withdraws his consent, or imposes new or different conditions. But compensation is not payable under either section unless the claimant can show that he has obtained or could reasonably have expected to obtain the necessary planning permission or statutory licence to abstract water. Under Schedule 3 application may be made to the local planing authority or the appropriate river authority, as the case may be, for a certificate stating that planning permission or a licence to abstract water could reasonably have been expected to be granted if the land had not been within the prescribed areas.