Act No. 67 / 1960 Coll.
Law on the production, distribution and use of heating gases (Gas Act)
Valid
Effective from 01.01.1961
67
THE LAW
of 25 May 1960
on the production, distribution and use of heating gases
(Gas Act)
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
Preliminary provisions
The continuous development of production forces in line with the development of socialist production relations increases the tasks and importance of the gas industry. Its continuous development, in particular the expanding production and distribution of heating gases and their use in industry, agriculture and households, is one of the essential preconditions for the efficient use of primary sources of fuel, the achievement of a higher technical level of production and efficiency in energy consumption and the improvement of social productivity of work. The expansion of the consumption of heating gases contributes to increasing the hygiene of housing, the working environment and the growth of the population's material and cultural levels.
In order to meet these objectives, the production and production bases of heating gases should be continuously improved and expanded and continuous care should be taken for the smooth, reliable and quality supply of heating gases and their economical use.
Heating gases are all flammable gases, natural or artificial, produced from solid, liquid, gaseous or by-product fuels in certain technological processes, distributed pipelines or transported in pressure containers for industry, agriculture and other public consumption.
Gas plants
(1) Gas plants are:
(a) installations for the production of heating gases (including installations for their treatment);
(b) heating gas storage facilities;
(c) heating gas distribution equipment (including gas pipelines and pressure relief equipment);
(d) pipeline connections,
(e) heating gas gauges.
(2) The pipeline network consists of heating gas distribution facilities and gas connections; However, neither industrial regulators nor home gas pressure regulators are included.
Heating gas sources
Technical installations in which, during the technological production process, the gases are a accompanying or by-product (e.g. blast furnaces, coking plants and quarries) as well as natural gas extraction facilities with mining probes shall be considered as sources of heating gases.
Establishment and operation of gas installations and gas sampling installations
Establishment and operation of gas installations
(1) Gas plants are set up in accordance with the rules on investment construction and such plants are operated by natural gas undertakings, unless otherwise provided for in this law. The implementing rules shall specify in which cases an investor shall establish gas pipeline connections for his cargo; such connections shall be transferred to the management of the natural gas undertaking from the date of their permanent operation (use).
(2) Organisations other than gas undertakings may reestablish, expand and operate heating gas plants only with the agreement of the Ministry of Fuel, issued in agreement with the competent central authority or authority and the Regional National Committee. This authorisation shall be granted in particular, unless it is otherwise possible to ensure the supply of heating gases (hereinafter referred to as "gases') for the purpose of producing the operator.
(3) Gas plant operators shall comply with the operating rules issued by the Ministry of Fuel in agreement with the central authorities involved.
In the design, construction and operation of gas installations, care must be taken to minimise the harmful effects on the agricultural and forestry economy and on the living and working environment, to investigate the protected parts of nature, the vegetation needed for hygiene protection, as well as cultural monuments, and to ensure the protection of natural therapeutic baths and natural medicinal resources.
Cancellation and cessation of gas installations and heating gas sources
(1) Equipment for the production of heating gases and the pipeline network must not be cancelled or stopped in the long term without the consent of the Ministry of Fuel issued in agreement with the central authorities involved and the relevant regional national committee.
(2) Cancellation, transfer or long-term cessation of heating gas sources, if they can affect the smooth and reliable supply of gas to the pipeline network, must be discussed in advance and agreed with the Ministry of Fuel.
Establishment and operation of gas demand facilities
(1) Selective gas installations are set up and operated on their load by operators of such facilities. Selective gas devices are devices connected to a pipeline connection that serves or is intended to collect gases.
(2) Excluding the operator's premises and / or land, sampling gas facilities, except for the home and residential installation of gas with accessories and appliances, may be set up and operated only after prior consultation with the gas undertaking and only if there are no serious reasons not to prevent this, in particular if the establishment or operation of such facilities is not contrary to the planned and economical construction of the gas plant or to its economic and efficient use.
(3) The Ministry of Fuel may determine in which cases no consultation with a natural gas undertaking is necessary to establish or operate gas demand facilities.
Obligations of gas operators and gas demand facilities
Gas plant operators, as well as gas demand facilities, are required to operate and maintain their facilities in such a way that their operation is safe and economically efficient and to take measures that allow the best use of those facilities.
Production, distribution, use and consumption management
In order to ensure the reliable supply of gas to the national economy and the population, the security of operation of the national gas pipeline system and to ensure the most economical production and efficient and efficient use of gases, the Ministry of fuels or the organisation empowered by it (hereinafter referred to as the "gas organisation ') shall manage and coordinate the production, distribution, use, distribution and disposal of gas, as well as the development and construction of the gas sector (hereinafter referred to as the" gas organisation'), to the extent specified by specific regulations, within the framework of the national economic development plan.
Gas Dispatch
(1) In order to fulfil the tasks referred to in Section 10, the gas organisation shall manage the supply and consumption of gas, the level of their production in installations for the production of heating gases and the level and operation of the supply of gas to the gas network from the sources of heating gases and from their storage and dispatching facilities shall manage the performance of the gas installations as well as the sources of heating gases connected to the gas network.
(2) In the framework of this dispatching procedure, the gas organisation is entitled to order the gas operator to increase, reduce, temporarily suspend or restart the production of gas and the fuel gas source operators to determine the manner, scope and timing of the gas supply to the pipeline. For heating gas sources, the gas organisation shall take into account the technological needs and the purpose of producing the operator in order to achieve an efficient and efficient use of the heating gas sources from a national perspective when implementing these measures.
(3) The detailed conditions of the dispatching procedure will be adjusted by the dispatcher's operating rules issued by the Ministry of Fuel in agreement with the central authorities and authorities involved.
Gas management and control
Gas management
(1) Gas collection organisations are obliged to follow the instructions of the gas organisation and to adjust the operation of their gas collection facilities, in particular industrial appliances, accordingly.
(2) In addition, organisations that collect gas on a wholesale scale are required to plan and implement measures technically and economically effective for better use of gases, in particular they are required to establish, verify and comply with gas consumption standards as instructed by the gas organisation.
(3) Gas plant operators, fuel gas sources operators and customers referred to in paragraph 1 shall be obliged to provide the gas organisation with the information and documentation necessary to plan and manage the production, distribution and consumption of gas to the extent specified by the Ministry of Fuel in an agreement with the central authorities involved.
Contact with customers
The gas organisation shall supply gas under the national development plan of the national economy on the basis of an agreed contract to all customers who are satisfied with the conditions for the efficient and economical connection of their facilities to the pipeline network if the customer's equipment complies with a safe and economical supply and does not prevent the circumstances which the supplier could not prevent or overcome without fault.
Conditions for connecting customers and supplying gas to the population
(1) Gas undertakings shall connect gas collection facilities to the gas pipeline network within the framework of the national economic development plan and under the conditions laid down in the implementing rules (connection conditions). The implementing rules shall also lay down the conditions under which gases are supplied to the population.
(2) The conditions for the supply of gases may require the customer to pay a certain amount of cash as compensation for damage which cannot be accurately established, in particular in cases of unauthorised or unmeasured gas collection or as compensation for minor damage caused to the installations of the gas undertaking, as well as cases in which the supply of gas may be interrupted or stopped.
(3) No modifications or other measures may be made to the sampling gas equipment through which the measured gases (in particular domestic and residential installations before the measuring instrument) are passed without the prior consent of the gas undertaking.
Testing of gas sampling devices
(1) The collection of gas equipment must be carried out and maintained in such a way as to meet the safety and efficiency requirements of the operation.
(2) Before putting into service the gas collection facilities, the operator or investor, as the case may be, shall ensure that they are tested in technical terms.
(3) The technical examination of the sampling gas equipment, with the exception of appliances which are subject to specific regulatory checks, shall be carried out by a gas undertaking which issues a certificate of the result of the check to the operator (investor).
Treatment of gas sampling devices when changing the type or pressure of gases
When changing the type of gas or pressure, carried out in the interests of technical development or more efficient use of gases, organisations having connected gas demand facilities in their management (ownership) are required to adapt to their cargo within the agreed deadlines the gas demand facilities, in particular appliances, to comply with that change. However, the treatment of domestic gas appliances, if owned by consumers, shall be carried out by the natural gas undertaking on its load.
Gasification
The planned construction of the national gas system, the connection of cities and municipalities and the expansion of the gas network in cities and rural areas, as well as the supply of gas in pressure vessels to consumers, is governed by the gazification plan, which forms part of the national development plan for the national economy.
Regional Gazification Plans shall be drawn up by natural gas undertakings in cooperation with the Regional National Committees in accordance with the approved national gazification plan. These plans also include a gas recovery plan supplied to consumers in pressure vessels.
Gasification is provided and carried out by natural gas undertakings. The national committees of each grade shall have jurisdiction and responsibility to the following extent:
(a) to the regional national committees to determine the ranking of city gazification in the county, to approve the relevant implementation plans, in accordance with the town gazification plan, and to decide on the determination of the gas consumption points supplied in pressure vessels;
(b) to the district national committees to decide on the order of investment in low-pressure pipelines under the approved gazification plan, taking into account maximum efficiency;
(c) approve local national committees of urban gazification generels in the framework of an approved gazification plan.
Common provisions
Authorisation for foreign real estate
(1) Gas undertakings are authorised to:
(a) to establish and operate on foreign land, to the extent resulting from the decision on the admissibility of the construction, the pipeline network;
(b) to establish and operate installations for the storage of heating gases in natural structures (hereinafter referred to as "underground storage tanks") under foreign land;
(c) enter and enter in connection with the establishment, operation, repair, modification and removal of the pipeline network on the arrival, transit and gas facilities concerned;
(d) to carry out surveys, measurements of underground natural structures and test drilling for the establishment and operation of underground containers and enter and enter for that purpose.
(2) In the exercise of these authorisations, natural gas undertakings and persons authorised by them shall be required to save as much property as possible, as well as the rights of owners or users. The natural gas undertaking shall be obliged to recover the land concerned as quickly as possible after construction or research work has been completed; If communication or other objects have been damaged, it is obliged to put them in their original state after the work has been completed.
(3) The gas undertaking shall notify the local national committee in advance of the location and time of the work planned and the likely extent of interference in the rights of the owners (users) of the land on which the work will be carried out; the local national committee shall inform the owners (users) of the land concerned accordingly.
(4) The owners (users) of the parcels in question are required, to the extent appropriate to the technical implementation of the construction and, within the time limit laid down in the decision on the admissibility of the construction, to take the necessary measures on the costs of the natural gas undertaking on their land, in particular to harvest the field culture, to report or remove trees in order not to make the construction or to jeopardise the operation of the pipeline network or, where appropriate, the work referred to in paragraph 1 (d) difficult. If the owner (user) of the land does not implement these measures in time, the natural gas undertaking shall do so at its own expense and at the risk of the owner (user).
(5) The rights referred to in paragraph 1, the compensation for the exercise of such authorisations, the burden in kind, the right to request the modification or transfer of the pipeline network or, where appropriate, the underground storage tank and the management, are subject to the provisions on electricity production, distribution and consumption. *)
(6) The gas undertaking shall discuss the construction or implementation of pipeline repairs with the relevant national committee; the National Committee coordinates the implementation of these works with the construction and repair of communications, water and sewage networks, etc.
Contact with communication, lines, water, water and equipment
In contact with natural gas installations, in particular gas mains and underground containers, with communications, lines of all species, water, water and water components and installations, the continuity of operation of both gas and communications facilities, lines, water, water works and installations, as well as the possibility of their proper maintenance should be ensured. The detailed conditions for such contact, unless provided for in technical standards, shall lay down rules to be laid down by the Ministry of Fuel in an agreement with the central authorities involved.
Protection zones
(1) Gas installations, as well as natural gas separation plants obtained by underground gasification, are protected by protection zones. The protection zones, without prejudice to normal agricultural and other uses, are intended to ensure the smooth operation of these facilities and to ensure the safety of persons and property.
(2) The implementing rules shall specify the types of activities which may not be carried out or limited in the protection zones, the width of those zones, which may not exceed 50 m, as well as the types of gas installations for which protection zones are not established.
(3) The provisions on protection zones shall also apply to the establishments referred to in paragraph 1 which were established before the date of application of this Law.
(4) Exceptions to the provisions on protection zones may be authorised by the construction office responsible for the decision on the admissibility of the construction site on a case-by-case basis; appropriate restrictions may be imposed.
Transitional and final provisions
(1) From the date of application of this Act, the authorisations and obligations under § 22 are also established for the benefit of the gas network operator established before the date of application of this Act.
(2) Where the gas pipeline network or part thereof, as well as measuring instruments, are under the management of a State Socialist sector organisation other than a gas undertaking, they shall, from the date of application of this Act, move to the management of the gas undertaking in whose distribution area they are established or operated.
(3) If the gas collection facilities or parts thereof connected to the connection are in the management of the gas undertaking and serve another organisation of the socialist sector, they shall, from the date of application of this Act, enter into the management (ownership) of that organisation.
(4) The transition of management (ownership) pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 is free of charge.
Authorisation provisions
The provisions necessary for the implementation of this Act shall be issued by the Ministry of Fuel in agreement with the central authorities involved. The implementing provisions shall also provide for the establishment and operation of installations for the distribution and use of liquefied heating gas and the conditions for its supply to the population.
Repeal
Act 177 / 1934 Coll., on natural gas undertakings benefiting from benefits, is repealed.
Efficiency and execution
This Law shall take effect from 1 January 1961; It shall be implemented by the Minister for Fuel in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
Novotný v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Broad v. r.
Jonah v. r.
*) Electricity Act No. 79 / 1957 Coll.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 67 / 1960 Coll., on the production, distribution and use of heating gases (Gas Act) |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 10.06.1960 |
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| Effective from | 01.01.1961 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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