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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-metrication-regulations-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-metrication-regulations-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/449",
  "legislation_title": "The Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-metrication-regulations-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese 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.\nThe following changes are made—\n(a) Pipe-lines Act 1962\n(i) scale of maps — references to “six inches to the mile” are replaced by references to “1 in 10,560”;\n(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\n(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”.\n(b) In the Pipe-lines (Limits of Deviation) Regulations 1962 the reference to “one hundred feet” is replaced by a reference to “30 metres”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/449/note",
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  },
  "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."
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