{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-pipe-lines-exemption-regulations-1985/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-pipe-lines-exemption-regulations-1985/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1051",
  "legislation_title": "The Submarine Pipe-lines (Exemption) Regulations 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-pipe-lines-exemption-regulations-1985",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Act shall not apply to an application for a works authorisation in respect of a pipe-line—\n(a) which is to have a length of less than 500 metres; or\n(b) which is to have a route lying wholly within a single safety zone established under section 21 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) above, the length of a pipe-line shall be taken to be the total length of pipe to be laid on or beneath the seabed, but where, in a system of pipes, a number of adjacent parallel lengths of pipe laid on or beneath the seabed serve the same purpose as would be served by a single pipe of a diameter greater than that of any of those lengths, that number shall be taken to constitute a single pipe.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1051/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:07:43.804218+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."
}