Gas Act 1986

5(1)In section 58(1) of the [1962 c. 58.] Pipe-lines Act 1962 (statutory bodies to whom, or in relation to whose pipe-fines, certain provisions of that Act do not apply), for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a)a public gas supplier within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986 ;”.

(2)Notwithstanding subsection (4) of the said section 58, but sub­ject to sub-paragraph (3) below, the references to a pipe-line in sec­tions 27(1) and 31(1) of the said Act of 1962 (protection of pipe-lines imperilled by buildings, structures or deposits) shall include references to any pipe-line vested in a public gas supplier other than one laid in a street or a service pipe.

(3)The application by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) above of the said section 27(1) and the said section 31(1) to a particular part of any pipe-line shall be dependent upon there having been previously deposited with every local authority in whose area the part lies by the public gas supplier a map, on a scale not less than 1 in 10,560, sho,wing the route taken by the part.

(4)A local authority holding a map relating to a pipe-line vested in a public gas supplier shall keep the map at their offices, and shall secure that it is open to inspection by any person at all reasonable times free of charge.

(5) In this paragraph—

• " local authority " means—

  (a)

  in England and Wales, the council of a county, dIstnct or London borough, and the Common Council of the City of London; and

  (b)

  in Scotland, an islands or district council ;

• " street " has the same meaning as in the [1950 c. 39.] Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950.

(6)In its application to Scotland this paragraph shall have effect as if for the word street ,ill both places where it occurs there were substituted the word " road ".