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Paragraph 6 Other activities

Northern Ireland Not yet in force

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(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), this paragraph applies to and in relation to –

(a)

the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, cleaning, use, operation, demolition and dismantling of any building, energy structure or other structure, not being in any case a vessel, or any preparation for any such activity;

(b)

the transfer of people or goods between a vessel or aircraft and a structure (including a building) mentioned in head (a);

(c)

the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;

(d)

a diving operation;

(e)

the construction, reconstruction, finishing, refitting, repair, maintenance, cleaning or breaking up of a vessel except when carried out by the master or any officer or member of the crew of that vessel;

(f)

the maintaining on a station of a vessel which would be an offshore installation were it not a structure to which paragraph 2(3)(d) applies;

(g)

the operation of a cable for transmitting electricity from an energy structure to shore;

(h)

the transfer of people or goods between a vessel or aircraft and a structure mentioned in head (f).

(2)

This paragraph shall not apply –

(a)

to a case where paragraph 2, 3, 4 or 5 applies; or

(b)

to vessels which are registered outside the United Kingdom and are on passage through the territorial sea.