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(1)In this Act " pipe-line " (except where the context otherwise requires) means a pipe (together with any apparatus and works associated therewith), or system of pipes (together with any apparatus and works associated therewith), for the conveyance of any thing other than air, water, water vapour or steam, not being—
(a)a drain or sewer ; or
(b)a pipe or system of pipes constituting or comprised in apparatus for heating or cooling or for domestic purposes; or
(c)a pipe or system of pipes on the site of any operations or works to which certain provisions of the Factories Act, 1961, apply by virtue of subsection (1) of section one hundred and twenty-seven (building operations and works of engineering construction) of that Act; or
(d)a pipe or system of pipes wholly situate within the boundaries of an agricultural unit and designed for use for purposes of agriculture ; or
(e)a pipe or system of pipes wholly situate in premises used for the purposes of education or research; or
(f)a pneumatic dispatch-tube.
(2)For the purposes of the foregoing subsection, the following apparatus and works, and none other, shall be treated as being associated with a pipe, or system of pipes, namely.—
(a)apparatus for inducing or facilitating the flow of any thing through the pipe or, as the case may be, through the system or any part thereof ;
(b)valves, valve chambers, manholes, inspection pits and similar works, being works annexed to, or incorporated in the course of, the pipe or system ;
(c)apparatus for supplying energy for the operation of any such apparatus as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection or of any such works as are mentioned in paragraph (b) thereof;
(d)apparatus for the transmission of information for the operation of the pipe or system ;
(e)apparatus for affording cathodic protection to the pipe or system;
(f)a structure for the exclusive support of a part of the line or system.
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