Gas Safety Act 2019
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4 Regulated activities
(1) For the purposes of this Act, the following are regulated activities:
(a) locating, inspecting, testing, operating, maintaining, repairing, altering, adding to, upgrading, replacing, decommissioning or removing gas infrastructure;
(b) excavating land in order to carry out work of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) ;
(c) construction of, or alteration to, a pipeline for carrying natural gas or another regulated substance;
(d) operating and maintaining a pipeline for carrying natural gas or another regulated substance;
(e) construction of, or alteration to, a pipeline facility for processing gas or another regulated substance;
(f) operating and maintaining a pipeline facility used for processing gas or another regulated substance;
(g) any other activities for which a licence is required under the Gas Industry Act 2019 .
(2) In this Act, a reference to a regulated activity includes all operations and activities reasonably necessary for, or incidental to, that activity.