{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58",
  "legislation_title": "Pipe-Lines Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Avoidance of interference with telegraphic, &c., lines.",
  "text": "(1) Electrical apparatus forming part of a pipe-line shall be so constructed, installed and used as to prevent interference with any electronic communications apparatus kept installed for the purposes of an electronic communications code network or with the service provided by any such network or with any apparatus used by railway undertakers for the purpose of signalling, or of controlling, directing or securing the safety of, traffic on their railway or the proper functioning of such apparatus.\n(2) Part 10 of Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003 (the electronic communications code) (which provides a procedure for certain cases where works involve the alteration of electronic communications apparatus) shall apply, for the purposes of works in pursuance of a compulsory rights order, to the person authorised to execute those works.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 4 para. 41(a), Sch. 5 para. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 28(a) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 28(b) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 28(c) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 40(2) substituted for s. 40(2)(3) by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 4 para. 41(b), Sch. 5 para. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 40(2) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 7; S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 40(2) applied (30.4.2015) by Energy Act 2013 (c. 32), ss. 126(4), 156(1) (with s. 130); S.I. 2015/817, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:01:32.285329+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."
}