Town and Country Planning (Minerals) Act 1981

Pipelines

33Rights to convey minerals by means of pipes

(1)In section 2(1) of the [1966 c. 4.] Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966 (which so defines ancillary rights that the court may confer as to exclude rights to convey minerals by means of pipes) for the words " or conveyance of minerals (otherwise than by means of a pipe) or " there shall be substituted the words " minerals, or, to the extent provided by subsection (1A) below, their conveyance, or for the purpose of ".

(2)The following subsection shall be inserted after that subsection : β€”

β€œ(1A)The rights for the purpose of the conveyance of minerals mentioned in subsection i\)(b) above areβ€”

(a)rights for the purpose of their conveyance otherwise than by means of a pipe ; and

(b)rights for the purpose of their conveyance by means of a pipe, where there was a right to convey them by means of the pipe before 1st January 1963.”.