# The Submarine Pipe-lines (Exemption) Regulations 1985, Regulation 2


(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—
(a) which is to have a length of less than 500 metres; or
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1051/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-pipe-lines-exemption-regulations-1985/regulation-2
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