Commentary on Sections Part 4: Government Pipe-Line and Storage System Section 126: Application of the Pipe-lines Act 1962
526.This section modifies the application of certain provisions of the Pipe-lines Act 1962 (c. 58) to the government pipe-line and storage system.
527.Subsection (3) only modifies the application of section 10 (provisions for securing that a pipe-line is so used as to reduce the necessity for construction of others) and section 36 (notification of abandonment, cesser of use and resumption of use of pipe-lines or lengths thereof) of the 1962 Act to any part of the system which is for the time being owned otherwise than by the Secretary of State.
528.Subsection (4) modifies section 40(2) of the 1962 Act (application of the electronic communications code).
529.Subsection (5) defines “GPSS works” for the purposes of subsection (4).
530.Subsection (6) modifies the effect of subsection (3) of section 45 of the 1962 Act (obligation to restore agricultural land) to the extent that anything done under or by virtue of Part 4 constitutes the execution of pipe-line works for the purposes of section 45.