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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-preparedness-response-and-co-operation-convention-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/386",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation Convention) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-preparedness-response-and-co-operation-convention-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Schedules",
  "text": "(1) The existing Schedule is renumbered as Schedule 1.\n(2) After Schedule 1, as so renumbered, insert—\n“SCHEDULE 2\nRequirements for an oil pollution emergency plan in respect of an offshore installation\nRegulation 4\n1. The oil pollution emergency plan (“the plan”) must take into account—\n(a) the risk assessment undertaken during preparation of the most recent safety case submitted under regulation 17(1), 18(1) or 20(1) of the Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015; and\n(b) where a mobile non-production installation is to be used for carrying out well operations, the risk assessment undertaken as part of the preparation of the notification of well operations, required by regulation 21(1) or 21(2) of the Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015.\n2. The plan must include the following information—\n(a) positions of persons authorised to initiate emergency response procedures and the positions of persons directing the emergency response to an oil pollution incident;\n(b) positions of persons responsible for liaising with the authority or authorities responsible for the National Contingency Plan;\n(c) arrangements for training personnel in the duties they will be expected to carry out in the event of any incident, where necessary co-ordinating the training with the National Contingency Plan;\n(d) a description of the potential worst case release of oil to the sea from the installation or connected infrastructure, arising from the scenarios identified in the safety case in respect of that installation or infrastructure (as required by the Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015). This must include any relevant details when two or more installations operate in combination in a way that affects the major hazard potential;\n(e) arrangements for limiting risks to the environment, including a description of equipment and arrangements for the protection of the environment from an incipient major accident and how warnings are to be given and the actions persons are expected to take on receipt of a warning;\n(f) a description of the equipment and resources available to respond to a release of oil to the sea, including the equipment and resources available for the capping of any potential release from a well, including—\n(i) a complete and up-to-date inventory of emergency response equipment pertinent to those operations; and\n(ii) details of the ownership, the storage location, the arrangements for transport to, and mode of deployment at, the incident location of the equipment and resources;\n(g) the measures in place to ensure that the response equipment and procedures are maintained in an operable condition;\n(h) an estimate of the oil spill response effectiveness, including consideration of the following environmental conditions—\n(i) weather, including wind, visibility, precipitation and temperature;\n(ii) sea states, tides and currents;\n(iii) presence of ice and debris;\n(iv) hours of daylight; and\n(v) other known environmental conditions that might influence the efficiency of the response equipment or the overall effectiveness of a response effort;\n(i) evidence that prior assessment of any relevant chemical dispersants has been carried out to minimise public health implications and any environmental damage;\n(j) an assessment of the identified potential environmental effects resulting from a release of oil and a description of the technical and non-technical measures envisaged to prevent, reduce or offset them, including monitoring; and\n(k) arrangements for providing early warning of a major environmental incident arising from a major accident to the authority or authorities responsible for initiating the National Contingency Plan, including—\n(i) details of the type of information that should be contained in any warning; and\n(ii) the arrangements for the provision of more detailed information as it becomes available.\n3. The plan must be consistent with the National Contingency Plan.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/386/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:46:13.303423+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."
}