Pipe-lines Act 1962

58 Exclusion of application of Act to, and in relation to, pipe-lines of certain statutory bodies

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

(a) the area boards established by the Gas Act, 1948;

(b) the Gas Council;

(c) the boards established by the Electricity Act, 1947 ;

(d) the boards established by the Electricity (Scotland) Acts, 1943 to 1957;

(e) the Central Electricity Generating Board; and

(f) the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

(2) Sections one and two 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, subsection (1) of section twenty-four, section 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 references to a pipe-line vested in a body to which this section applies.

(5) 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 such works executed by a body to which this section applies.