{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-pipeline-works-management-and-administration-regulations-1995/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-pipeline-works-management-and-administration-regulations-1995/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Except for regulations 21F and 21G (which provide for their own application), these Regulations shall apply—\n(a) in Great Britain; and\n(b) to and in relation to offshore installations, wells, pipelines and activities outside Great Britain to which sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 apply by virtue of articles 4(1) and (2), 5 and 6 of the 2013 Order.\n(2) Regulations 6 to 21 shall not apply in relation to an offshore installation which is in transit to or from a location; and an offshore installation is not in transit to or from a location while it is being manoeuvred at the location.\n(3) Save where otherwise expressly provided, nothing in regulations 6 to 13 or 15 to 18 shall impose a duty in relation to an offshore installation while there are no persons aboard.\n(4) Regulations 21A to 21E do not apply to an offshore installation—\n(a) registered as a vessel (whether registered in the United Kingdom or elsewhere); or\n(b) which is in transit to or from a station; or\n(c) which is unmanned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) 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. 11(2) (with reg. 4(2), Sch. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(b) substituted (19.7.2015) by The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/398), reg. 1, Sch. 13 para. 11(3)(a) (with reg. 4(2), Sch. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(1)(b) substituted (19.7.2015) by The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/398), reg. 1, Sch. 13 para. 11(3)(b) (with reg. 4(2), Sch. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(4) 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. 11(4) (with reg. 4(2), Sch. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 20.6.1995, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/738/regulation/4",
    "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."
}