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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/304",
  "legislation_title": "Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Pipelines",
  "text": "(1) Any pipeline.\n(2) Any pipeline works.\n(3) The following activities in connection with pipeline works—\n(a) the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;\n(b) 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(4) In this paragraph—\n“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 paragraphs (a) to (c);\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 a pipeline of which no initial or terminal point is situated in the United Kingdom or within territorial waters, United Kingdom territorial waters adjacent to Great Britain or a designated area;\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;\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 paragraphs (a) to (c), and tunnelling or boring for those purposes;\n(e) any activities incidental to the activities described in paragraphs (a) to (d);\n(f) diving operations in connection with any of the works mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) 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": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 in operation at 20.9.1999, see reg. 1"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/304/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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