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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/29" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="0029">Planning Act 2008</Citation></Title>
<Number>29</Number>
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<DateText>26 November 2008</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00223" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/29/section/21" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-21">Section 21</CitationSubRef>: Other pipe-lines</Title>
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<Text>This section sets out the circumstances in which the construction of a pipe-line other than by a gas transporter is a nationally significant infrastructure project.  The section avoids disturbing the devolution settlement under which pipe-lines wholly situated within Scotland require consent from Scottish Ministers under section 1 of the Pipe-lines Act 1962.</Text>
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