{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/840",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires –\n“the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n“designated area” means any area designated by order under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 and “within a designated area” includes over and under it;\n“the prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act” means sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the 1974 Act;\n“territorial waters” means United Kingdom territorial waters adjacent to Great Britain and “within territorial waters” includes on, over and under them;\n“vessel” includes a hovercraft and any floating structure which is capable of being manned.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, a person shall be deemed to be engaged in diving operations throughout any period from the time when he commences to prepare for diving until the time when –\n(a) he is no longer subjected to raised pressure;\n(b) he has normal inert gas partial pressure in his tissues; and\n(c) if he entered the water, he has left it;\nand diving operations include the activity of any person in connection with the health and safety of a person who is, or is deemed to be, engaged in diving operations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 29; section 1 was amended by the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23), Schedule 3, paragraph 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/840/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:23.662951+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}