{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/825",
  "legislation_title": "The Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“dangerous fluid” has the meaning given by regulation 18(2);\n“emergency shut-down valve” means a valve which is capable of adequately blocking the flow of fluid within the pipeline at the point at which it is incorporated;\n“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;\n“fluid” includes a mixture of fluids;\n“local authority” means—\n(a)in relation to England, a county council, a council having the functions of a county council, the London Fire Commissioner, a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority, or the Council for the Isles of Scilly;\n(b)in relation to Scotland, the council for a local government area; and\n(c)in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough council;\n“major accident” means death or serious injury involving a dangerous fluid;\n“major accident hazard pipeline” has the meaning given by regulation 18(1);\n“operator”, in relation to a pipeline means—\n(a)the person who is to have or (once fluid is conveyed) has control over the conveyance of fluid in the pipeline;\n(b)until that person is known (should there be a case where at a material time he is not yet known) the person who is to commission or (where commissioning has started) commissions the design and construction of the pipeline;\n(c)when a pipeline is no longer, or is not for the time being used, the person last having control over the conveyance of fluid in it;\n“pipeline” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 3.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2018) by The London Government (London Fire Commissioner and Policing) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/269), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1) applied (with modifications) (8.5.2017) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Fire and Rescue Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/469), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1) modified (20.12.2023) by The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1432), arts. 1(2), 46(2), Sch. 7 para. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 11.4.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/825/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:47:24.491973+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."
}