{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-1989/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-1989/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Pipelines",
  "text": "(1) The prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act shall apply within territorial waters or a designated area to and in relation to –\n(a) any pipeline works;\n(b) the following activities in connection with pipeline works –\n(i) the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel,\n(ii) the loading, unloading, fuelling, repair and maintenance of an aircraft on a vessel,\nbeing in either case a vessel which is engaged in pipeline works.\n(2) “Pipeline” means a pipe or system of pipes for the conveyance of any thing, together with –\n(a) any apparatus for inducing or facilitating the flow of any thing through, or through a part of, the pipe or system;\n(b) any apparatus for treating or cooling any thing which is to flow through, or through part of, the pipe or system;\n(c) valves, valve chambers and similar works which are annexed to, or incorporated in the course of, the pipe or system;\n(d) apparatus for supplying energy for the operation of any such apparatus or works as are mentioned in the preceding paragraphs;\n(e) apparatus for the transmission of information for the operation of the pipe or system;\n(f) apparatus for the cathodic protection of the pipe or system; and\n(g) a structure used or to be used solely for the support of a part of the pipe or system;\nbut not including –\n(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\n(ii) any part of a pipeline which is an offshore installation within the meaning of article 4(2) of this Order;\n“pipeline works” means –\n(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;\n(b) inspecting, testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing a pipeline or length of pipeline;\n(c) changing the position of or dismantling or removing a pipeline or length of pipeline;\n(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;\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/840/article/5",
    "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."
}