(1) The Secretary of State may determine -

(a) the amount of the costs to be paid by a designated gas transporter under section 85 or 86,

(b) the manner in which and the times at which those costs are to be paid, and

(c) the person or persons to whom they are to be paid.

(2) An occupier who incurs costs under an arrangement under section 86 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 that are required to be paid by a designated gas transporter under section 86 may recover them directly from the designated gas transporter.

(3) A designated gas transporter may, in determining its charges for conveying gas through pipes, take into account -

(a) any payments made by the designated gas transporter under section 85 or 86, and

(b) the reasonable costs incurred by it as party to an arrangement under section 86 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 entered into at the Secretary of State's request.

This applies despite anything in the conditions of the designated gas transporter's licence under section 7 of the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44) that prevents the transporter from recovering such payments or costs.

(4) The Secretary of State may direct the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority ("the Authority") -