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Pipelines Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
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- 1997 No. 193
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Emergency plans in case of major accidents
25.—(1) The Department shall, within 9 months of receiving a notification pursuant to regulation 20, and subject to paragraph (5), arrange the preparation of an adequate plan detailing how an emergency relating to a possible major accident will be dealt with.
(2) In the preparation of the plan pursuant to paragraph (1), the Department shall consult the operator of the pipeline and any other persons as appear to the Department to be appropriate.
(3) The Department shall, as often as is appropriate and in any case not more than three years after the plan was prepared, or (where it has been revised) last revised, arrange the review of the plan and the making of such revision as is appropriate.
(4) The operator of a major accident hazard pipeline shall ensure that the Department is furnished promptly with such information as may reasonably be required for the preparation of the plan referred to in paragraph (1).
(5) It shall be deemed to be sufficient compliance with the requirement in paragraph (1) as to the time by which a plan is to be prepared, where such time is exceeded by reason of waiting for information referred to in paragraph (4) which has been promptly required.
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