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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/825",
  "legislation_title": "The Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Design of a pipeline",
  "text": "The operator shall ensure that no fluid is conveyed in a pipeline unless it has been so designed that, so far as is reasonably practicable, it can withstand—\n(a) forces arising from its operation;\n(b) the fluids that may be conveyed in it; and\n(c) the external forces and the chemical processes to which it may be subjected.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}