Article 5 Pipelines

(1)

The prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act shall apply within territorial waters or a designated area to and in relation to –

(a)

any pipeline works;

(b)

the following activities in connection with pipeline works –

(i)

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

(ii)

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.

(2)

“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 the preceding paragraphs;

(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)

a structure used or to be used solely for the support of a part of the pipe or system;

but not including –

(i)

a pipeline of which no initial or terminal point is situated in the United Kingdom or within territorial waters or a designated area; or

(ii)

any part of a pipeline which is an offshore installation within the meaning of article 4(2) of this Order;

“pipeline works” means –

(a)

assembling or placing a pipeline or length of pipeline including the provision of internal or external protection for it, and any processes incidental to any of those activities;

(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 sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of this definition, tunnelling or boring for those purposes and other works needed for or incidental to those purposes;

(e)

diving operations in connection with any of the works mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of this definition 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.