{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-pipeline-works-management-and-administration-regulations-1995/regulation-21H",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-pipeline-works-management-and-administration-regulations-1995/regulation-21H.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/738",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-pipeline-works-management-and-administration-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/21H",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21H",
  "heading": "Safety Zones",
  "text": "The prohibition under section 23(1) of the Petroleum Act 1987 on a vessel entering or remaining in a safety zone established around an installation by virtue of that Act does not apply to a vessel entering or remaining in the safety zone—\n(a) in connection with the laying, inspection, testing, repair, maintenance, alteration, renewal or removal of any submarine cable or pipe-line in or near that safety zone;\n(b) to provide services for, to transport persons or goods to or from, or under the authority of a government department to inspect, any installation in that safety zone;\n(c) if it is a vessel belonging to a general lighthouse authority (within the meaning given in section 193 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995) performing duties relating to the safety of navigation;\n(d) in connection with the saving or attempted saving of life or property;\n(e) owing to stress of weather;\n(f) when in distress; or\n(g) if there is consent from the duty holder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/738/regulation/21H",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:09.279957+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."
}