Exclusion of certain Pipe-lines and Works from Scope of Act

58 Exclusion of application of Act to, and in relation to, pipe-lines of certain statutory bodies.

(1)

The bodies to which this section applies are—

F1(a)

a public gas supplier within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986;;

(c)—(e)

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(f)

the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

(2)

Sections one and two of this Act shall not apply to works executed by a body to which this section applies.

(3)

The following provisions of this Act shall not apply to a body to which this section applies, namely, sections eleven, twelve and fifteen, subsection (1) of section seventeen, and sections twenty, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty-nine, and forty-five.

(4)

In the following provisions of this Act, namely, subsection (2) of section seventeen . . . F3, section twenty-six, F4section 26A subsection (1) of section twenty-seven, subsection (1) of section thirty-one, subsection (1) of section thirty-three, subsection (1) of section thirty-six, and sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty . . . F3, references to a pipe-line shall be construed as not including references to a pipe-line vested in a body to which this section applies.

(5)

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