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Gas Act, 2001 (Act No. 48 of 2001)NoticesGas Act Rules, 2009Chapter 2 : Applications and Objections to Licence Applications8. Publishing of a notice of an application for a licence and the contents thereof |
| (1) | When an applicant for a licence has received confirmation from the Energy Regulator in terms of rule 7(6) that the application meets the application requirements and is accepted by the Energy Regulator, the applicant must, in accordance with section 17 of the Act, publish a notice of the application in at least two newspapers circulating in the area of the proposed activity. |
| (2) | The notice contemplated in subrule (1) above must be published on at least three different days and in any two of the official languages, one of which must be English. |
| (3) | The applicant must, for each of the days on which the notice contemplated in subrule (1) was published, immediately forward copies thereof to the Energy Regulator. |
| (4) | If the Energy Regulator deems it necessary considering the specific characteristics of an application, it may direct an applicant to publish the notice contemplated in this rule, in more than one issue of a newspaper but not exceeding four or on more than three days but not exceeding six days. |
| (5) | A notice of an application published in terms of this rule must comply with all requirements listed in section 17(2) of the Act and must— |
| (a) | state that the licence application will be accessible to members of the public— |
| (i) | from the date on which the notice is published until the closing date for objections. which date must not be earlier than 30 days from the last date of publication of the notice; |
| (ii) | except on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays and only during working hours: |
| (aa) | at the offices of the applicant and must state the address, telephone number and the name of the contact person at the offices of the applicant; |
| (bb) | at the offices of the Energy Regulator at the address specified in rule 2(1); |
| (iii) | on the website of the applicant, where available; and |
| (iv) | on the website of the Energy Regulator; |
| (b) | state the application reference number issued by the Energy Regulator; |
| (c) | indicate that the Energy Regulator will disregard objections received after the closing date; and |
| (d) | state that— |
| (i) | persons who wish to lodge objections must do so by completing the form at Annexure D to these rules which is available on the website of the Energy Regulator or at the offices of the Energy Regulator at the address specified in rule 2(1) ; and |
| (ii) | objections must be delivered by hand or sent by registered post to the address stated in rule 2; and |
| (iii) | copies of objections may also be sent electronically to the address stated in rule 2. |
