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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-2013/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-2013/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/240",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-order-2013",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Wells",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, the prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act apply within the territorial sea or a designated area to and in relation to—\n(a) a well and any activity in connection with it; and\n(b) an activity which is immediately preparatory to any activity in sub-paragraph (a) above.\n(2) Paragraph (1) of this article includes keeping a vessel on station for the purpose of working on a well but otherwise does not include navigation or an activity connected with navigation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 6.4.2013, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/240/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:05:10.322570+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."
}