{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/17",
  "legislation_title": "Petroleum Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Meaning of “pipeline”.",
  "text": "(1) Except where the context otherwise requires, in this Part of this Act “pipeline” means a pipe or system of pipes (excluding a drain or sewer) for the conveyance of any thing, together with all apparatus, works and services associated with the operation of such a pipe or system .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The Secretary of State may by order provide that a part of a pipeline specified in the order shall be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Act, except this subsection, as a pipeline.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(1) substituted (6.4.2009) by Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), ss. 78(3)(a), 110(2); S.I. 2009/45, art. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 26(2) repealed (6.4.2009) by Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), ss. 78(3)(b), 110(2), Sch. 6; S.I. 2009/45, art. 4(c)(cc)(d)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/17/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:00.843249+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}