Petroleum Act 1998

The Offshore, and Pipelines, Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17))

35 In Article 3 of the [S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9).] Offshore, and Pipelines, Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (application of Part II of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 for offshore purposes)—

(a) in paragraph (3), for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

“(b) sections 20 and 25 of the Petroleum Act 1998;”, and in sub-paragraph (c) the words from “section” to “requirements and” shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (4), for the definitions of “pipe-line” and “pipe-line works” there shall be substituted—

““pipe-line” means, subject to paragraph (4A), a controlled pipeline within the meaning of Part III of the Petroleum Act 1998; and

“pipe-line works” means works of any of the following kinds, namely—

(a) assembling or placing a pipe-line or length of pipe-line;

(b) inspecting, testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing a pipe-line or length of pipe-line;

(c) changing the position of or dismantling or removing a pipe-line or length of pipe-line;

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

(e) works for the purpose of determining whether a place is suitable as part of the site of a proposed pipe-line and the carrying out of surveying operations for the purpose of settling the route of a proposed pipe-line.”;

(c) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted—

“(4A) Subsections (4A) and (4B) of section 1 of the Offshore Safety Act 1992 apply in relation to the definition of “pipe-line” in paragraph (4) as they apply in relation to the definition of “pipe-line” in subsection (4) of that section but as if the reference in subsection (4A) to that section were a reference to this Article.”; and

(d) in paragraph (5), sub-paragraph (b) and, in sub-paragraph (c), the words “16(1) or” shall be omitted and at the end of sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted— “; or

(d) section 14(2) or 45 of the Petroleum Act 1998,”.