Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 No. 305

SCHEDULE 1 Premises and activities within territorial waters

Pipelines

4.—(1) Any pipeline.

(2) Any pipeline works.

(3) The following activities in connection with pipeline works—

(a) the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;

(b) the loading, unloading, fuelling, repair and maintenance of an aircraft on a vessel,

being in either case a vessel which is engaged in pipeline works.

(4) In this paragraph—

• “pipeline” means a pipe or system of pipes for the conveyance of any thing, together with—

  (a)

  any apparatus for inducing or facilitating the flow of any thing through, or through a part of, the pipe or system;

  (b)

  any apparatus for treating or cooling any thing which is to flow through, or through part of, the pipe or system;

  (c)

  valves, valve chambers and similar works which are annexed to, or incorporated in the course of, the pipe or system;

  (d)

  apparatus for supplying energy for the operation of any such apparatus or works as are mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c);

  (e)

  apparatus for the transmission of information for the operation of the pipe or system;

  (f)

  apparatus for the cathodic protection of the pipe or system; and

  (g)

  a structure used or to be used solely for the support of a part of the pipe or system;

• but not including a pipeline of which no initial or terminal point is situated in the United Kingdom or within territorial waters, United Kingdom territorial waters adjacent to Great Britain or a designated area;

• “pipeline works” means—

  (a)

  assembling or placing a pipeline or length of pipeline including the provision of internal or external protection for it;

  (b)

  inspecting, testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing a pipeline or length of pipeline;

  (c)

  changing the position of or dismantling or removing a pipeline or length of pipeline;

  (d)

  opening the bed of the sea for the purposes of the works mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c), and tunnelling or boring for those purposes;

  (e)

  any activities incidental to the activities described in paragraphs (a) to (d);

  (f)

  diving operations in connection with any of the works mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) or for the purpose of determining whether a place is suitable as part of the site of a proposed pipeline and the carrying out of surveying operations for settling the route of a proposed pipeline.