Regulation 31 Review of plans under the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996I1

It shall be the duty of each shadow council and each preparing council which is a county council to review and, where appropriate, revise any plan prepared under regulation 25 (emergency plans in case of major accidents) of the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996^f1 (“a regulation 25 plan”) which, by virtue of regulation 14 of these Regulations, is to have effect in the council’s area on and after the reorganisation date.

The duty imposed by paragraph (1) shall be discharged before the reorganisation date.

On and after the reorganisation date, paragraph (3) of regulation 25 of the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996 shall have effect in relation to a single tier council for whose area there is a regulation 25 plan as if after “every three years” there were inserted “beginning with the period of three years that commences in the third year after that in which the reorganisation date falls”.