The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Amendment of the Energy Act 2008 etc.) Regulations 2011

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14.—(1) The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2000(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2, in the definition of “relevant pipe-line works”, after “any pipe-line which is intended to convey oil or gas”, insert—

(aa)any pipe-line which is intended to convey carbon dioxide streams for the purposes of geological storage, including associated booster stations;.

(1)

S.I. 2000/1928. The Regulations were amended by the Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992). Certain functions under this regulation are transferred, in so far as they are exercisable in or as regards Scotland, to the Scottish Ministers, by the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc) (No 2) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/3253). There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.