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

Regulations

Purchase

(1)	The Gas Regulator must take the following criteria into account when determining the operating pressures that define the boundary between transmission and distribution pipelines:

(a)	More than five customer off-takes per kilometre may be considered as distribution; and

(b)	more than five branch pipelines per kilometre may be considered as distribution.

(2)	Notwithstanding subregulation (1), branch pipelines connected to a transmission pipeline whose sole purpose is to serve eligible customers must be classified as transmission pipelines.