Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 1091

PIPE-LINES

The St Michaels Mead Natural Gas Pipe-lines Order 1995

Made

18th April 1995

Laid before Parliament

25th April 1995

Coming into force

16th May 1995

The Secretary of State, on an application in that behalf being made to him by Associated Gas Supplies Limited, and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(2) of the Pipe-lines Act 1962(1) and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the St Michaels Mead Natural Gas Pipe-lines Order 1995 and shall come into force on 16th May 1995.

2.  In this Order, the “St Michaels Mead site” means the land which is described in the Schedule hereto and which is delineated and shown shaded in green on the map annexed hereto.

3.  Section 7(1) of the Pipe-lines Act 1962(3) shall not apply to the construction of pipe-lines situate wholly within the St Michaels Mead site, being pipe-lines for the conveyance of natural gas.

Richard Page

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Industry and Energy

Department of Trade and Industry

18th April 1995

SCHEDULE Description of the land comprised in the Order

Size and situation	36.42 hectares of land or thereabouts in the town of Bishop’s Stortford in the county of Hertfordshire lying to the west of housing development known as Thorley Park, to the north of the road known as Thorley Lane, to the east of the B1004 and to the south of Bishop’s Park Road.
Owner	Countryside Properties plc

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under section 7(1) of the Pipe-lines Act 1962, the construction of a pipe-line of a length not exceeding 16.093 km which is to form an addition to another is deemed to constitute the construction of a cross-country pipe-line (the construction of which would be unlawful unless authorised by the Secretary of State under section 1 of the Act), if the aggregate length of both exceeds 16.093km. However, section 7(2) enables the Secretary of State to direct that section 7(1) shall not apply to the construction of pipe-lines of a specified class within a specified area. This Order provides that section 7(1) shall not apply to the construction of natural gas pipe-lines in a particular part of Hertfordshire.

(1)

1962 c. 58.

(2)

S.I. 1969/1498, 1970/1537.

(3)

Section 7(1) was amended by the Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/449).