Pipe-Lines Act 1962

3 (1) Where an applicant for the grant of a pipe-line construction authorisation is given notice under the last foregoing paragraph that his application is to be allowed to proceed, compliance with the following requirements shall be a condition precedent to the taking by the Minister of further steps in the matter of the application, namely,— E+W+S

(a) there must be published by the applicant in the Gazette and thereafter also in such other manner as the Minister may direct (being the manner appearing to him to be best calculated for informing persons inhabiting land in the vicinity of the route to be taken by the proposed pipe-line) a notice stating that application has been made to the Minister for the grant of the authorisation, naming a place where a copy of the map that accompanied the application can be inspected and stating the time (not being less than twenty-eight days from the date of the happening of the relevant event) within which, and the manner in which, objections to the application can be sent to the Minister;

(b) a like notice must be served by the applicant on every local planning authority in whose area any part of the route of the proposed pipe-line will lie and on such (if any) other persons as may be specified by the Minister.

(2) In the foregoing sub-paragraph “relevant event” means, in relation to a notice published in compliance with the requirement of head (a), the publication or first publication of the notice in the manner directed by the Minister, and, in relation to a notice served in compliance with the requirement of head (b), the service of the notice, and “the Gazette” means—

(a) in relation to an application for the grant of an authorisation for the execution of works for the placing of a proposed pipe-line along a route lying wholly in England and Wales, the London Gazette;

(b) in relation to an application for the grant of an authorisation for the execution of works for the placing of a proposed pipe-line along a route lying wholly in Scotland, the Edinburgh Gazette;

(c) in relation to an application for the grant of an authorisation for the execution of works for the placing of a proposed pipe-line along a route lying partly in England and Wales and partly in Scotland, the London Gazette and the Edinburgh Gazette.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 1 para. 3 extended by S.I. 1990/442, art. 7(2)