The Lazy Acres Natural Gas Pipe-lines Order 1994

Made: 26th July 1994

Laid before Parliament: 2nd August 1994

Coming into force: 1st September 1994

The Secretary of State, on an application in that behalf being made to him by Associated Gas Supplies Limited, and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(2) of the Pipe-lines Act 1962[^f00001] and now vested in him[^f00002], hereby makes the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Lazy Acres Natural Gas Pipe-lines Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st September 1994.

2

In this Order, the “Lazy Acres site” means the land which is described in the Schedule hereto and which is delineated and shown shaded in green on the map annexed hereto.

3

Section 7(1) of the Pipe-lines Act 1962[^f00003] shall not apply to the construction of pipe-lines situate wholly within the Lazy Acres site, being pipe-lines for the conveyance of natural gas.

SCHEDULE — Description of the land comprised in the Order

Size and situation 16.187 hectares of land or thereabouts in the village of Thrapston in the County of Northamptonshire, lying to the South of the Oundle Road, to the North of the A604 Road, to the East of the village of Thrapston and to the West of the A605 Thrapston by-pass.

Signed

Charles Wardle — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Energy — 26th July 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under section 7(1) of the Pipe-lines Act 1962 the construction of a pipe-line of a length not exceeding ten miles which is to form an addition to another, is deemed to constitute the construction of a cross-country pipe-line (the construction of which would be unlawful unless authorised by the Secretary of State under section 1 of the Act), if the aggregate length of both exceeds ten miles. However, section 7(2) enables the Secretary of State to direct that section 7(1) shall not apply to the construction of pipe-lines of a specified class within a specified area. This Order provides that section 7(1) shall not apply to the construction of natural gas pipe-lines in a particular part of Northamptonshire.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1962 c. 58.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1969/1498, 1970/1537.

[^f00003]: Section 7(1) was amended by the Pipe-lines (Metrication) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/449).