Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971

8 Application of existing law to offshore installations in territorial waters and designated areas

(1) Section 3 of the [1964 c. 29.] Continental Shelf Act 1964 (application of criminal and civil law to installations outside territorial waters) shall have effect as if any references in that section to an installation in a designated area included references to any offshore installation either in territorial waters of the United Kingdom or in a designated area.

(2) So far as relates to questions arising out of acts or omissions taking place on, under or above—

(a) an offshore installation in territorial waters of the United Kingdom, or

(b) territorial waters of the United Kingdom within five hundred metres of an offshore installation,

subsection (2) of the said section 3 (power to confer jurisdiction on courts in any part of the United Kingdom) shall apply as if the words " in a designated area, or in any part of such an area " were omitted.

(3) It is hereby declared that, notwithstanding that the said section 3 may affect individuals or bodies corporate outside the United Kingdom, it applies to any individual whether or not he is a British subject, and to any body corporate whether or not incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.

(4) So far as relates to any provision of an Order in Council or regulation concerning aircraft on or in the neighbourhood of offshore installations, section 59 of the [1949 c. 67.] Civil Aviation Act 1949 (extra-territorial effect) shall apply to ail aircraft, and not only to British aircraft registered in the United Kingdom and shall apply to the doing of anything in relation to any aircraft by any person, irrespective of nationality or, in the case of a body corporate, of the law under which it was incorporated.

(5) This section, and the said section 3 of the [1964 c. 29.] Continental Shelf Act 1964, shall apply to installations notwithstanding that they are for the time being in transit.