# Biocidal Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, Paragraph 4: Pipelines

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) Any pipeline.
(2) Any pipeline works.
(3) The following activities in connection with pipeline works—
(a) the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;
(b) the loading, unloading, fuelling, repair and maintenance of an aircraft on a vessel,
being in either case a vessel which is engaged in pipeline works.
(4) In this paragraph—
“pipeline” means a pipe or system of pipes for the conveyance of any thing, together with—
(a) any apparatus for inducing or facilitating the flow of any thing through, or through a part of, the pipe or system;
(b) any apparatus for treating or cooling any thing which is to flow through, or through part of, the pipe or system;
(c) valves, valve chambers and similar works which are annexed to, or incorporated in the course of, the pipe or system;
(d) apparatus for supplying energy for the operation of any such apparatus or works as are mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c);
(e) apparatus for the transmission of information for the operation of the pipe or system;
(f) apparatus for the cathodic protection of the pipe or system; and
(g) structure used or to be used solely for the support of a part of the pipe or system,
but not including a pipeline of which no initial or terminal point is situated in the United Kingdom or within territorial waters, United Kingdom territorial waters adjacent to Great Britain or a designated area;
“pipeline works” means—
(a) assembling or placing a pipeline or length of pipeline including the provision of internal or external protection for it;
(b) inspecting, testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing a pipeline or length of pipeline;
(c) changing the position of or dismantling or removing a pipeline or length of pipeline;
(d) opening the bed of the sea for the purposes of the works mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c), and tunnelling or boring for those purposes;
(e) any activities incidental to the activities described in paragraphs (a) to (d);
(f) diving operations in connection with any of the works mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) or for the purpose of determining whether a place is suitable as part of the site of a proposed pipeline and the carrying out of surveying operations for settling the route of a proposed pipeline.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/422/schedule/13/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule-13/paragraph-4
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