# The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1989, Article 7: Other activities within territorial waters


The prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act shall apply within territorial waters to and in relation to –
(a) the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, cleaning, demolition and dismantling of any building or other structure not being a vessel, or any preparation for any such activity;
(b) the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;
(c) diving operations;
(d) 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;
except that this article shall not apply in any case where at the relevant time article 4, 5 or 6 of this Order applies, or to vessels which are registered outside the United Kingdom and are on passage through territorial waters.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/840/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-1989/article-7
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