{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2127",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-2001",
  "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“activity” includes a diving project;\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“diving project” has the same meaning as it has in the Diving at Work Regulations 1997 save that it includes an activity in which a person takes part as a diver wearing an atmospheric pressure suit and without breathing in air or other gas at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure;\n“energy structure” means a fixed or floating structure, other than a vessel, for producing energy from wind or water;\n“offshore installation” shall be construed in accordance with article 4(2) and (3) of this Order;\n“the prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act” means sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the 1974 Act;\n“supplementary unit” means a fixed or floating structure, other than a vessel, for providing energy, information or substances to an offshore installation;\n“stand-by vessel” means a vessel which is is ready to give assistance in the event of an emergency on or near an offshore installation;\n“territorial sea” means the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain and “within the territorial sea” includes on, over and under it;\n“vessel” includes a hovercraft and any floating structure which is capable of being staffed.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, any structures and devices on top of a well shall be treated as forming part of the well.",
  "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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2776."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2127/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:47:05.633743+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."
}