Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations implement, for the purposes of the Pipe-lines Act 1962 and the Pipe-lines (Limits of Deviation) Regulations 1962, Council Directive No. 80/181/EEC (O.J. 1980, L39, 15.2.80, p.40) as amended by Council Directive No. 89/617/EEC (O.J. 1989, No. L357, 7.12.89, p.28), which establish the legal units of measurement to be used throughout the Community.

The following changes are made—

(a)

Pipe-lines Act 1962

(i)

scale of maps — references to “six inches to the mile” are replaced by references to “1 in 10,560”;

(ii)

length of pipe-lines — references to “ten miles” in sections 3(1), 7(1) and 66(1) are replaced by references to “16.093 kilometres”; and

(iii)

in sections 27(1) and (6) and 31(1) (buildings etc. imperilling pipe-lines) — references to “ten feet” are replaced by references to “3 metres”.

(b)

In the Pipe-lines (Limits of Deviation) Regulations 1962 the reference to “one hundred feet” is replaced by a reference to “30 metres”.