The Petroleum Act 1998 (Specified Pipelines) (Amendment) and Importation and Storage of Combustible Gas (Designation of Substance etc.) Order 2023

Article 2 of this Order amends the descriptions of pipelines in The Petroleum Act 1998 (Specified Pipelines) Order 2011 that are specified to be disregarded for the purposes of Part 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998 (other than for the purposes of section 24(2A), under which this Order is made). Part 3 of that Act deals with submarine pipelines: see section 26 of that Act for the meaning of “pipeline” and section 28(1) for the meaning of “controlled pipeline”. The effect of these amendments is that controlled pipelines used in relation to the unloading or storage offshore of hydrogen, the export from or import into the United Kingdom of hydrogen, the transfer of hydrogen between any of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the conveyance of hydrogen not otherwise captured by these previous descriptions are not to be disregarded for the purposes of Part 3 of that Act.