Pipe-lines Act 1962

26 Prohibition of change of use of pipe-line without previous notice to the Minister

(1) It shall not, when a pipe-line constructed pursuant to a pipe-line construction authorisation or in accordance with a notice given for the purposes of subsection (1) of section two of this Act is first brought into use, be lawful for it to be used for the conveyance of any thing other than a thing of the particular kind, or things of the particular class, stated in the application for the grant of the authorisation or, as the case may be, the notice to be the kind of thing, or the things of the class, proposed to be conveyed in the line unless, not less than three weeks before the date on which it is so brought into use, notice of intention to use it for the conveyance of that other thing when it is so brought into use has been given by the owner of the line to the Minister; nor shall it be lawful, after a pipe-line has first been brought into use, for a change to be made in the thing or class of things conveyed thereby unless, not less than three weeks before the change occurs, notice of the change (specifying in what it consists) has been given as aforesaid.

(2) In the event of a contravention, in relation to a pipe-line, of the foregoing subsection, the owner of the line shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.