{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-metrication-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-metrication-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/449",
  "legislation_title": "The Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipe-lines-metrication-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of Pipe-lines Act 1962",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) With effect from 1st January 1995—\n(a) in the following provisions (which specify the minimum scale of a map on which the route of a pipe-line is delineated)—\n(i) sections 2(2)(b) and 8(1)(b);\n(ii) paragraphs 1(b) and 7 of Schedule 1; and\n(iii) paragraphs 1(b) and 7(1) of Schedule 2, “six inches to the mile” there shall be substituted “1 in 10,560”;\n(b) in the following provisions (which specify the maximum length of a pipe-line for certain purposes)—\n(i) section 3(1);\n(ii) section 7(1); and\n(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\n(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”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 58."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/449/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:28:01.327172+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."
}