{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mineral-workings-offshore-installations-act-1971/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mineral-workings-offshore-installations-act-1971/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/61",
  "legislation_title": "Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mineral-workings-offshore-installations-act-1971",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the safety, health and welfare of persons on installations concerned with the underwater exploitation and exploration of mineral resources in the waters in or surrounding the United Kingdom, and generally for the safety of such installations and the prevention of accidents on or near them.\n[27th July 1971]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act restricted by Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23, SIF 86), s. 27(3)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to repeal or modify Act conferred (E.W.S.) (6.3.1992) by Offshore Safety Act 1992 (c.15), ss.1, 3(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act modified (E.W.S.) (6.3.1992) by Offshore Safety Act 1992 (c. 15), s. 1(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Power to repeal or modify Act conferred (15.9.1992) by S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 14(2); Act wholly in force at 31.8.1972"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/61/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:41.144267+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."
}