# The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, Regulation 21F: Power of inspectors of offshore installations and offshore wind or marine energy installations; duty to provide accommodation and subsistence for inspectors


(1) An inspector may exercise the powers in paragraph (2) for the purpose of carrying into effect the relevant statutory provisions within the field of responsibility of the enforcing authority that appointed the inspector.
(2) The powers are—
(a) to require a duty holder to convey to and from an offshore installation, an offshore wind or marine energy installation or a vessel associated with offshore oil and gas operations, CCUS operations, offshore hydrogen operations or offshore wind or marine energy operations, at any reasonable time, by a reasonable method—
(i) the inspector;
(ii) the equipment or materials of the inspector; and
(iii) any article or substance of which the inspector has taken possession pursuant to section 20 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;
(b) to inspect any operation or work in or on the bed of relevant waters and subsoil under or near an offshore installation; and
(c) to require the duty holder or manager of an offshore installation or the licensee concerned to assist the inspector in carrying out an inspection of the bed of relevant waters or subsoil under or near the offshore installation.
(3) The duty holder must provide an inspector with reasonable accommodation and means of subsistence while on an offshore installation for the purpose stated in paragraph (1).
(4) In paragraphs (2)(a)(i) and (ii), and (3) a reference to an inspector includes a reference to a person acting under the direction of the competent authority who is not an inspector.
(5) In relation to an offence consisting of a contravention of the requirement under paragraph (3)—
(a) proceedings on indictment are excluded; and
(b) the punishment which can be imposed is restricted to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(6) In this regulation—
“CCUS operations” means all activities associated with an offshore installation relating to carbon capture, utilisation and storage, including the design, planning, construction, operation and decommissioning of the installation;
“energy structure” has the meaning given in article 9 (production of energy from water or wind) of the 2013 Order;
“offshore hydrogen operations” means all activities associated with an offshore installation relating to offshore hydrogen production, including the design, planning, construction, operation and decommissioning of the installation;
“offshore oil and gas operations” means all activities associated with an offshore installation relating to exploration and production of petroleum, including the design, planning, construction, operation and decommissioning of the installation, but excluding the conveyance of petroleum from one coast to another;
“offshore wind or marine energy installation” means an installation of one or more energy structures and technology, including cables, within the territorial sea or a renewable energy zone for the purposes specified in article 9(1)(a) to (c) of the 2013 Order;
“offshore wind or marine energy operations” means all activities associated with an offshore wind or marine energy installation or are connected with or preparatory to the purposes specified in article 9(1)(a) to (c) of the 2013 Order, including the design, planning, construction, operation and decommissioning of the offshore wind or marine energy installation; and
“renewable energy zone” has the meaning given in article 9 of the 2013 Order.
(7) This regulation applies—
(a) in Great Britain;
(b) to the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain up to the seaward limits of the territorial sea and to the waters in any area designated by order under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964; and
(c) to places above and below the territorial sea and waters in any area so designated.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/738/regulation/21F (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-pipeline-works-management-and-administration-regulations-1995/regulation-21F
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