Roads (Scotland) Act 1984

The Pipe-lines Act 1962 (c. 58)S

55(1)The Pipe-lines Act 1962 shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph.S

(2)In section 15 (power to place pipe-lines in streets)—

F1(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)in subsection (4), in each of the paragraphs (c) to (d), for the word “highway” there shall be substituted the words “road over which there is a public right of passage”;

(c)in subsection (7), for the words from “shall be determined” to the end there shall be substituted the words “shall be referred to the arbitration of a single arbiter appointed by agreement between the parties concerned or, in default of agreement, by the sheriff; and in any such arbitration the arbiter may, and, if so directed by the Court of Session, shall, state a case for the decision of that court on any question of law arising in the arbitration.”; and

F1(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F2(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4)In section 66(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “in”, for the word “street” there shall be substituted the word “road”.

Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 9 para. 55(3) repealed (1.1.1993) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108) s. 168(2), Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch. 2