HL Deb 31 July 1962 vol 243 cc158-60

Clause 38, page 31, leave out lines 15 to 40 and insert— ("5. A pipe-line, that is to say, a pipe or system of pipes for the conveyance of any thing, not being—

  1. (a) a drain or sewer;
  2. (b) a pipe or system of pipes vested in an area board established by the Gas Act, 1948, or in a board established by the Electricity Act, 1947, or in the Central Electricity Generating Board;
  3. (c) a pipe or system of pipes forming part of the equipment of, and wholly situate within, a factory or petroleum storage depot or premises comprised in a mine, quarry or mineral field: 159 and exclusive of so much of a pipe or system of pipes forming part of the equipment of, and situate partly within and partly outside. a factory or petroleum storage depot or premises comprised in a mine, quarry or mineral field as is situate within, as the case may be, the factory or petroleum storage depot or those premises.
In this paragraph—
  1. (i) 'factory' has the same meaning as in the Factories Act, 1961;
  2. (ii) 'mine' and 'quarry' have the same meanings as in the Mines and Quarries Act, 1954;
  3. (iii) 'mineral field' means an area comprising an excavation being a well or borehole or a well and bore-hole combined, or a system of such excavations, used for the purpose of pumping or raising brine or oil, and so much of the surface (including buildings, structures and works thereon) surrounding or adjacent to the excavation or system as is occupied, together with the excavation or system, for the purpose of the working of the excavation or system
  4. (iv) 'petroleum storage depot' means premises used primarily for the storage of petroleum or petroleum products (including chemicals derived from petroleum) or of materials used in the manufacture of petroleum products (including chemicals derived from petroleum)".)

4.30 p.m.

LORD CHESHAM

My Lords, this Amendment looks rather more complicated than it is. On the Third Reading my noble friend Lord Merrivale was given an undertaking, or at least an assurance, that an Amendment would be introduced, the effect of which would be to exempt from rating a pipe or system of pipes on premises occupied and used for the pumping or raising of brine. This was a technicality, because the scene of brine pumping operations fell into the category of neither a mine nor a quarry. Those are specifically excepted by virtue of Clause 38 of the Bill, and the brine pumping operations should be similarly excepted, which the Amendment does. It was noticed in considering the preparation of the Amendment that the same thing applied to petroleum storage depôts, and therefore opportunity has been taken to deal with them at the same time within the same Amendment. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Chesham.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.