Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992
| Year | 1992 |
1992 No. 449
PIPE-LINES
The Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992
Made 28th February 1992
Laid before Parliament 6th March 1992
Coming into force 1st April 1992
The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated1for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722in relation to units of measurement to be used for economic, health, safety or administrative purposes, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) and (4) of the said Act of 1972, and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.
Amendment of Pipe-lines Act 1962
2.—(1) In this regulation any reference to a section or a Schedule followed by a number is a reference to the section or Schedule bearing that number in the Pipe-lines Act 19623.
(2) With effect from 1st January 1995—
(a)
(a) in the following provisions (which specify the minimum scale of a map on which the route of a pipe-line is delineated)—
(i) sections 2(2)(b) and 8(1)(b);
(ii) paragraphs 1(b) and 7 of Schedule 1; and
(iii) paragraphs 1(b) and 7(1) of Schedule 2, “six inches to the mile” there shall be substituted “1 in 10,560”;
(b)
(b) in the following provisions (which specify the maximum length of a pipe-line for certain purposes)—
(i) section 3(1);
(ii) section 7(1); and
(iii) the definition of “cross-country pipe-line” in section 66(1), “ten miles”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted “16.093 kilometres”; and
(c)
(c) in section 27(1) and (6) (which specify the minimum distance between a pipe-line and a building or structure) and 31(1) (which specifies the minimum distance between a pipe-line and any deposit of earth or other materials) for the words “ten feet” there shall be substituted “3 metres”.
Amendment of Pipe-lines (Limits of Deviation) Regulations 1962
3. With effect from 1st January 1995, in regulation 3 of the Pipe-lines (Limits of Deviation) Regulations 19624(which limits the extent to which the route of a local pipe-line can deviate from the route delineated on a map submitted to the Secretary of State), for the words “one hundred feet” there shall be substituted “30 metres”.
John Wakeham
Secretary of State for Energy
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