Pipe-Lines Act 1962 (c. 58)

Exclusion of certain Pipe-lines and Works from Scope of Act E+W+S

58 Exclusion of application of Act to, and in relation to, pipe-lines of certain statutory bodies. E+W+S

(1) The bodies to which this section applies are—

[F1 (a) a public gas transporter within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986;]

(c)—(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(f) the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

(2) [F3 Section one] of this Act shall not apply to works executed by a body to which this section applies.

(3) The following provisions of this Act shall not apply to a body to which this section applies, namely, sections eleven, twelve and fifteen, subsection (1) of section seventeen, and sections twenty, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty-nine, and forty-five.

(4) In the following provisions of this Act, namely, subsection (2) of section seventeen . . . F4 , section twenty-six, [F5 section 26A] 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 . . . F4 , references to a pipe-line shall be construed as not including references to a pipe-line vested in a body to which this section applies.

[F6 (4A) References in sections 9A and 10 of this Act to an additional pipe-line shall be construed as not including references to a pipe-line constructed by and vested in, or proposed to be constructed by and proposed to be vested in, a public gas transporter within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986.]

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 58(1)(a) substituted (1.3.1996) by virtue of 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 6(1); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2

F2 S. 58(1)(c)–(e) repealed by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), s. 112(4), Sch. 17 para. 35(1), Sch. 18

F3 Words in s. 58(2) substituted (3.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/742, art. 2, Sch. para. 1(5)

F4 Words repealed by S.I. 1974/1986, Sch. 7

F5 Words inserted by Petroleum Act 1987 (c. 12, SIF 86), s. 26(2)

F6 S. 58(4A) inserted (10.8.2000) by S.I. 2000/1937, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 7

F7 Ss. 58(5), 59(6) repealed by S.I. 1974/1986, Sch. 1

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 58(4) excluded by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1), Sch. 7 para. 5(2)