10 Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005
1 The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005 are amended as follows.
S.I. 2005/2055, amended by S.I. 2011/983; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
2 In regulation 2 (interpretation), in the definition of “offshore installation”, after “Secretary of State” insert “or the Oil and Gas Authority”.
3 In regulation 5A(5)(b) (publicity for permit applications), for “Secretary of State” substitute “Oil and Gas Authority”.
4 After regulation 18 (disapplication or consequential modifications of enactments), insert—

“18A Review
1 The Secretary of State must from time to time—
(a) carry out a review of regulations 2 to 18(1) of these Regulations;
(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and
(c) publish the report.
2 The report must in particular—
(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by those regulations;
(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved;
(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.
3 The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which this regulation comes into force.
4 Subsequent reports under this regulation must be published at intervals not exceeding five years.”

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