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What does Gb mean? Gb is used in legal practice to express data capacity or speed in telecoms, cloud and IT procurement, and to estimate electronic disclosure volumes. By convention, Gb (lower-case b) means gigabit, equal to 1,000,000,000 bits. This differs from GB (capital B), which means gigabyte, equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes; there are 8 bits in a byte, so 1 GB = 8 Gb. The term is not defined in UK or Irish legislation or case law; it is a technical measurement adopted by contract drafters and industry standards (SI/IEC). For storage, some systems use binary units (gibibyte, GiB = 2^30 bytes), which can...

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Great Britain Onshore Gas Market Regulation: Licensing, UNC Access, Capacity Auctions, NBP Trading and Balancing under the Gas Act 1986 (post‑Brexit assimilated law)

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For comprehensive commentary on the regulation, consenting and incentivisation of the net zero energy transition under the laws of England and Wales, see also: Collinson and Hockman on Energy Law: Regulating, Consenting and Incentivising the Energy Transition. The textbook includes in-depth discussion of issues covered in this PrACTice Note.

Brexit impact

At 11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020, the transition/implementation period following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU ended. That moment (described in UK law as ‘IP completion day’) brought key transitional measures to a close and significant changes started to apply across the UK legal regime. Any changes relevant to this content are set out below.

On IP completion day, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (EU(W)A 2018) created a new category of domestic UK law—retained EU law (REUL)—comprising EU-derived rights and legislation preserved in the UK after Brexit. On 29 June 2023, the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (REUL(RR)A 2023) received Royal Assent. REUL(RR)A 2023 alters the treatment of REUL by:

  • revoking substantial tranches of REUL from 31 December 2023
  • re-labelling REUL as ‘assimilated law’ from 1...
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