Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971

Section 6.

SCHEDULE U.K. Subject Matter of Regulations

1 (1) Measures to ensure the safety of the installation, and of any other structures associated with the operations carried out from the installation.

(2) Measures to ensure safety when an installation or any part of an installation is being assembled or dismantled in the sea or other waters.

2 The movement of, and precautions to be taken by, vessels, aircraft and hovercraft in the neighbourhood of offshore installations.

3 Provisions as to the manner in which or occasions on which any operation or work is to be or may be carried out, or as to the safety or suitability of any place where it is carried out.

4 (1) Provisions as to the equipment, facilities or materials which are to be or may be supplied or used, whether the provision has reference to sufficiency, to suitability, to safety during use or while not in use, or to any other matter.

(2) The application of—

(a) the M1 Anchors and Chain Cables Act 1967,

(b) the M2 Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969, or any corresponding enactment in force in Northern Ireland,

subject to such modifications or extensions as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Any provision corresponding to anything in the Acts mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above.

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c. 64.

M2 1969 c. 57.

5 (1) Limits on hours of employment in any special operation or in any specified circumstances.

(2) The employment at installations of persons who are under the age of eighteen, or who have not received the prescribed instruction or training.

Subordinate Legislation Made

P1 For exercises of this power see Index to Government Orders

P2 S. 6(1)(3)(with para. 5(2) of the Schedule) power exercised by S.I.1991/308

6 Training.

7 Emergency equipment and emergency procedures.

8 (1) Accidents, injuries and disease.

(2) Medical treatment and medical stores.

(3) Accommodation, provisioning and water.

Inspectors and inquiries U.K.

9 Powers and duties to be exercised by, and facilities to be accorded to, inspectors appointed by the Secretary of State under this Act, and other persons acting at the direction of the Secretary of State, and in particular—

(a) powers to board, and to obtain access to all parts of, any offshore installation, to obtain information and to inspect and take copies from any log book or other document,

(b) powers to test equipment and, in special circumstances, to dismantle, test to destruction or take possession of any article of equipment.

(c) powers to require, in connection with the survey or inspection of any installation, part of an installation or equipment, the carrying out of procedures and the conduct of tests by such person as may be prescribed by the regulations,

(d) rights to require conveyance to and from any offshore installation, including conveyance of any equipment required by an inspector for testing, or any equipment of which he has taken possession in special circumstances,

(e) duties to provide inspectors and others with reasonable accommodation and means of subsistence while on any offshore installation,

(f) any powers exercisable in case of immediate or apprehended danger.

10 (1) Casualties or other accidents involving loss of life or danger to life, and in particular—

(a) the making of special reports by inspectors, and

(b) the holding of public inquiries.

(2) In the case of any public inquiry held in pursuance of regulations under this Act, provision—

(a) conferring on the person holding the inquiry, and any person assisting him in the inquiry, powers of entry and inspection,

(b) conferring on any such person powers of summoning witnesses to give evidence or produce documents,

(c) powers to take evidence on oath and administer oaths or require the making of declarations,

(d) authorising the Secretary of State to make payments to the person holding the inquiry, to any assessor appointed to assist him and to witnesses summoned to the inquiry,

(e) as to the persons by whom, and the manner in which, costs of any such inquiry, including the remuneration of the person or persons holding the inquiry, are to be defrayed.

(3) The provision as respects costs under sub-paragraph (2)(e) above may include—

(a) provision for the treatment of any such costs as expenses of the Secretary of State under this Act,

(b) provision requiring any such costs to be defrayed by any person who appears to the person or persons holding the inquiry to be, by reason of any act or default on his part or on the part of any servant or agent of his, responsible in any degree for the occurrence of the accident.

Supplemental U.K.

11 (1) The keeping of an official log book, and of other records.

(2) The creation of any right to inspect, or take extracts from, any such records, and the admissibility in evidence of, or of certified extracts of, any such records.

12 The making of returns and the giving of information, and in particular the making of returns to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen of deaths, including presumed deaths; and the duties of the Registrar General as respects such returns.

13 The display and posting of copies of, or of digests of, this Act and of regulations made under this Act.

14 The punishment of forgery or falsification of documents, and of other offences as respects forged or falsified documents, where the documents are, or purport to be, made under or for the purposes of the regulations.

15 The regulations may, in prescribing standards of safety, or in imposing other requirements, refer to, and make obligations depend on, the provisions of any recognised industrial code of practice as for the time being in force.