{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58",
  "legislation_title": "Pipe-Lines Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Exclusion of application of Act to, and in relation to, certain pipe-lines of railway undertakers, &c.",
  "text": "(1) Section oneof this Act shall not apply to works executed by railway undertakers for the purposes of their business other than the operation of pipe-lines.\n(2) Sections eleven and twelve of this Act shall not have effect for the purpose of authorising railway undertakers to purchase land for the placing therein of a pipe-line to be constructed for the purposes aforesaid or a length of pipe-line to be so constructed or to place in land a pipe-line to be so constructed or a length of a pipe-line to be so constructed.\n(3) Section fifteen of this Act shall not operate to empower railway undertakers to place in a street a pipe-line constructed for the purposes aforesaid.\n(4) In subsection (1) of section twenty of this Act the reference to works in land for the construction of a pipe-line shall be construed as not including a reference to works for the construction of a pipe-line by railway undertakers for the purposes aforesaid.\n(5) In the following provisions of this Act, namely, section twenty-three, . . . sections twenty-five and twenty-six, section 26A subsection (1) of section twenty-seven, subsection (1) of section thirty-one, subsection (1) of section thirty-three, subsection (1) of section thirty-six and sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty . . . , references to a pipe-line shall be construed as not including a pipe-line vested in railway undertakers for the purposes aforesaid.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 59(1) substituted (3.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/742, art. 2, Sch. para. 1(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1974/1986, Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Petroleum Act 1987 (c. 12, SIF 86), s. 26(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. 58(5), 59(6) repealed by S.I. 1974/1986, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58/section/59",
    "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."
}