17 Acquisition of rights to use pipelines
Petroleum Act 1998 (1998 c 17) | Legislation

17  Acquisition of rights to use pipelines

(1)     Subsections (2) and (3) apply where a person applies to the [OGA] for a notice under this section securing to the applicant a right to have conveyed, by a controlled pipeline of which he is not the owner, quantities specified in the application of things which are of a kind so specified and which the pipeline is designed to convey.

[(1A)     This section does not apply to—

(a)     controlled petroleum pipelines;

(b)     pipelines in, under or over the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain which are used to convey gas directly from a terminal to a pipeline system operated by a gas transporter or to any premises;

(c)     gas interconnectors (within the meaning of Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986).]

[(1B)     This section also does not apply to controlled carbon dioxide pipelines.]

(2)     The [OGA] shall—

(a)     give notice to the owner of the pipeline and the applicant that [it] proposes

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