Paragraph 2 Offshore installationsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

This paragraph shall apply to and in relation to –

(a)

any offshore installation and any activity on it;

(b)

any activity in connection with an offshore installation, or any activity which is immediately preparatory thereto, whether carried on from the installation itself, in or from a vessel or in any other manner, other than –

(i)

transporting, towing or navigating the installation; and

(ii)

any activity in or from a vessel being used as a stand-by vessel;

(c)

a diving project involving –

(i)

the survey and preparation of the sea bed for an offshore installation;

(ii)

the survey and restoration of the sea bed consequent on the removal of an offshore installation.

(2)

Subject to sub-paragraph (3), in this paragraph, “offshore installation” means a structure which is, or is to be, or has been, used while standing or stationed in water, or on the foreshore or other land intermittently covered with water –

(a)

for the exploitation, or exploration with a view to exploitation, of mineral resources by means of a well;

(b)

for the storage of gas in or under the shore or bed of any water or the recovery of gas so stored;

(c)

for the conveyance of things by means of a pipe; or

(d)

mainly for the provision of accommodation for persons who work on or from a structure falling within any of the provisions of this sub-paragraph,

together with any supplementary unit which is ordinarily connected to it, and all the connections.

(3)

Any reference in sub-paragraph (2) to a structure or unit does not include –

(a)

a structure which is connected with dry land by a permanent structure providing access at all times and for all purposes;

(b)

a well;

(c)

a structure which has ceased to be used for any of the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (2) and has since been used for a purpose not so specified;

(d)

a mobile structure which has been taken out of use and is not yet being moved with a view to its being used for any of the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (2); and

(e)

any part of a pipeline.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 1 para. 2 in operation at 4.4.2005, see reg. 1