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SCHEDULE 3AMENDMENTS

Confined Spaces Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

5.  In the Confined Spaces Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) –

(a)in regulation 1(2), for the definition of “diving operation” there shall be substituted the following definition –

“diving project” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Diving at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005;;

(b)in regulation 2, for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

(c)any diving project to and in relation to which the Diving at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 apply by virtue of regulation 3 of those Regulations.;

(c)in Schedule 1 –

(i)in paragraph 1(1) the following definition shall be inserted –

“diving project” has the same meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Diving at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 save that it includes an activity in which a person takes part as a diver wearing an atmospheric pressure suit and without breathing in air or other gas at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure;

(ii)paragraph 1(3) shall be omitted; and

(iii)in paragraph 4(1)(b) and (c) and in head (f) of the definition of “pipeline works” in paragraph 6(2) for the words “diving operations” there shall be substituted the words “a diving project”.