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Amendment made: No. 8, in page 9, line 27, at end insert—
'(3A) The Secretary of State may, after consultation with the Director, make provision by regulations for entitling a public gas supplier to require a person requiring a supply of gas in pursuance of subsection (1) above to pay to the supplier an amount in respect of the expenses of the laying of the main used for the purpose of giving that supply if—
- (a) the supply is required within the prescribed period after the laying of the main;
- (b) a person for the purpose of supplying whom the main was laid has made a payment to the supplier in respect of those expenses;
- (c) the amount required does not exceed any amount paid in respect of those expenses by such a person or by any person previously required to make a payment under the regulations; and
- (d) the supplier has not recovered those expenses in full.'.—[Mr. Buchanan-Smith.]