Regulation 2 Amendment of Pipe-lines Act 1962

(1)

In this regulation any reference to a section or a Schedule followed by a number is a reference to the section or Schedule bearing that number in the Pipe-lines Act 1962^f1.

(2)

With effect from 1st January 1995—

(a)

in the following provisions (which specify the minimum scale of a map on which the route of a pipe-line is delineated)—

(i)

sections 2(2)(b) and 8(1)(b);

(ii)

paragraphs 1(b) and 7 of Schedule 1; and

(iii)

paragraphs 1(b) and 7(1) of Schedule 2, “six inches to the mile” there shall be substituted “1 in 10,560”;

(b)

in the following provisions (which specify the maximum length of a pipe-line for certain purposes)—

(i)

section 3(1);

(ii)

section 7(1); and

(iii)

the definition of “cross-country pipe-line” in section 66(1), “ten miles”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted “16.093 kilometres”; and

(c)

in section 27(1) and (6) (which specify the minimum distance between a pipe-line and a building or structure) and 31(1) (which specifies the minimum distance between a pipe-line and any deposit of earth or other materials) for the words “ten feet” there shall be substituted “3 metres”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1962 c. 58.