Pipelines Act 2005

a pipeline conveying hydrocarbons or other substances in a gaseous state where the pressure of the gas being conveyed through a pipe is not more than 1050 kPa and the circumferential stress does not exceed 20% of the Specified Minimum Yield Stress (SMYS);

a pipeline entirely within a petroleum processing plant, refinery, factory, railway yard, airport or port (including any port within the meaning of the Port Management Act 1995);

a pipeline entirely on land the freehold of which is owned or leased by a licensee and which is controlled by that licensee;

a pipeline conveying hydrocarbons or other substances in a liquid state where—

the length of any pipe situated outside the property to which the hydrocarbons are conveyed is not greater than 100 metres; or

the nominal internal diameter of any pipe is not greater than 100 millimetres in any place; or

the operating pressure, in respect of the pipe or system of pipes, is not greater than 345 kPa;

a pipeline situated wholly within—

a residential property or premises used for business and designed for use solely for the purposes of that property or premises;

a factory and designed for use solely for the purposes of the factory;

any premises used solely for education or research;

an agricultural unit and designed for use for agricultural purposes;

a pipeline for water supply, drainage or sewerage (not including a pipeline for the conveyance of geothermal water within the meaning of the Geothermal Energy Resources Act 2005);

a fixed hose.