Pipe-lines Act 1962

59 Exclusion of application of Act to, and in relation to, certain pipe-lines of railway undertakers

(1) Sections one and two of this Act shall not apply to works executed by railway undertakers for the purposes of their business other than the operation of pipe-lines.

(2) Sections eleven and twelve of this Act shall not have effect for the purpose of authorising railway undertakers to purchase land for the placing therein of a pipe-line to be constructed for the purposes aforesaid or a length of pipe-line to be so constructed or to place in land a pipe-line to be so constructed or a length of a pipe-line to be so constructed.

(3) Section fifteen of this Act shall not operate to empower railway undertakers to place in a street a pipe-line constructed for the purposes aforesaid.

(4) In subsection (1) of section twenty of this Act the reference to works in land for the construction of a pipe-line shall be construed as not including a reference to works for the construction of a pipe-line by railway undertakers for the purposes aforesaid.

(5) In the following provisions of this Act, namely, section twenty-three, subsection (1) of section twenty-four, sections twenty-five and twenty-six, subsection (1) of section twenty-seven, subsection (1). of section thirty-one, subsection (1) of section thirty-three, subsection (1) of section thirty-six and sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty and forty-two, references to a pipe-line shall be construed as not including a pipe-line vested in railway undertakers for the purposes aforesaid.

(6) In subsection (1) of section twenty-four and in section forty-two of this Act the references to pipe-line works shall be construed as not including references to pipe-line works executed by railway undertakers for the purposes aforesaid.