# Pipe-Lines Act 1962, Section 59: Exclusion of application of Act to, and in relation to, certain pipe-lines of railway undertakers, &c.

Extent: E+W+S

(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/58/section/59 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-act-1962/section-59
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