Regulation 21A Obligation to notify death or loss of personF1

(1)

Where any person—

(a)

dies on an offshore installation or is lost from such an installation; or

(b)

dies in or on a lifeboat, liferaft or other emergency survival craft belonging to an offshore installation or is lost from any of those places; or

(c)

otherwise dies or is lost in the neighbourhood of an offshore installation while engaged in any operation connected with the installation,

and the death or loss is not required to be registered under any regulations made under section 108 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (which relates to returns of births and deaths in ships), a return of death in the form set out in Schedule 3 must be made in accordance with regulation 21B.

(2)

In this regulation and regulations 21B and 21C ‘lost’ means lost in circumstances such that it is reasonable to believe that the person has died and ‘loss’ is to be construed accordingly.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Regs. 21A-21H inserted (19.7.2015) by The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/398), reg. 1, Sch. 13 para. 14 (with reg. 4(2), Sch. 14)