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

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Gas Act Rules, 2021

Chapter 4 : Complaints, Investigations, Inspections and Inquiries

20. 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.