Statutory Instruments
PIPE-LINES
Made
10th July 1985
Laid before Parliament
11th July 1985
Coming into Operation
1st August 1985
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Submarine Pipe-lines (Exemption) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 1st August 1985.
2.-(1) Paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Act shall not apply to an application for a works authorisation in respect of a pipe-line-
(a)which is to have a length of less than 500 metres; or
(b)which is to have a route lying wholly within a single safety zone established under section 21 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) above, the length of a pipe-line shall be taken to be the total length of pipe to be laid on or beneath the seabed, but where, in a system of pipes, a number of adjacent parallel lengths of pipe laid on or beneath the seabed serve the same purpose as would be served by a single pipe of a diameter greater than that of any of those lengths, that number shall be taken to constitute a single pipe.
Alick Buchanan-Smith
Minister of State
Department of Energy
10th July 1985
These Regulations exempt an applicant from his duty, to publish a notice in such a manner as directed by the Secretary of State, to make available to the public, a map for inspection, and to serve a copy of the notice on such persons as directed by the Secretary of State, in respect of a pipeline which is five hundred metres or less in length or which lies wholly within a safety zone established under section 21 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982.