The Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/449
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

Section 2 Amendment of Pipe-lines Act 1962

(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 1962 .

(2) With effect from 1st January 1995—

(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) 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) 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”.

Section 3 Amendment of Pipe-lines (Limits of Deviation) Regulations 1962

With effect from 1st January 1995, in regulation 3 of the Pipe-lines (Limits of Deviation) Regulations 1962 (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”.