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2015 No. 398

Health And Safety

Environmental Protection

The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015

Made

19th March 2015

Laid before Parliament

23rd March 2015

Coming into force

19th July 2015

The Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 M1 in relation to measures relating to employers' obligations in respect of the health and safety of workers M2 and the environment M3.

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by—

(a)

section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972;

(b)

sections 15(1), (2), (3)(a), (4), (5)(b), (6)(b), (c) and (d), and 82(3)(a) of and paragraphs 1(1)(c) and (2), 8(1), 9, 14, 15(1) and 16 of Schedule 3 to the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 M4;

(c)

section 23(1)(b) of the Petroleum Act 1987 M5; and

(d)

section 1(2) of the Offshore Safety Act 1992 M6.

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations, so far as made in exercise of the powers cited in paragraph (b) (as read with the power cited in paragraph (d)), for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Executive under section 11(3) M7 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 after the carrying out of consultations by the Executive in accordance with section 50(3) M8 of that Act.

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M11972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). The power of Ministers to make regulations in relation to matters as regards Scotland is preserved by section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

M2S.I. 1999/2027. The Secretary of State is also designated in relation to anything supplemental or related to measures relating to employers' obligations in respect of the health and safety of workers, under article 2(2) of that Order.

M41974 c.37. Section 15(1) was substituted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 15 to the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c.71) and amended by S.I. 2002/794. Section 15(2) was amended by paragraphs 1 and 5 of Schedule 12 to the Energy Act 2013 (c.32). Section 15(4)(a) was amended by S.I. 2008/960. Section 15(6)(d) was amended by Schedule 12 to the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45). The general purposes of Part 1 of the 1974 Act are modified by section 1(1) of the Offshore Safety Act 1992.

M51987 c. 12. Section 21 of that Act, which provides for the automatic creation of safety zones, was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Energy Act 2008 (c. 32). Section 23(1) creates a prohibition on a vessel's entering or remaining in a safety zone and subsection (1)(b) of that section was amended by regulation 4(4)(a) of the Offshore Safety (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1823) which created an exception to the prohibition with a consent given by the Health and Safety Executive and preserved the Secretary of State's power to make regulations providing for an exception to the prohibition. Section 23(8), which defines “vessel,” was amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21), Schedule 13, paragraph 78.

M61992 c. 15. Section 1 was amended by paragraph 33(2) of Schedule 4 to the Petroleum Act 1998 (c. 17).

M7Section 11 was substituted by article 5 of S.I. 2008/960.

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