This section applies if the Secretary of State is notified by the Authority under section 8D(3) that an application has been made by a person from a country outside the United Kingdom or a person controlled by a person from a country outside the United Kingdom.
The Secretary of State must prepare a report on whether the security of gas supplies in the United Kingdom ... would be put at risk by the certification of the applicant.
The Secretary of State must prepare the report and send it to the Authority within the 6 weeks beginning with the day on which the notification under section 8D(3) is received.
If, before the Secretary of State sends the report to the Authority, the Authority receives information under section 8D(4) or (5) and thinks that the information is relevant to the preparation of the report, the Authority must supply that information to the Secretary of State as soon as is reasonably practicable.
In preparing the report, the Secretary of State must take into account—