{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/228",
  "legislation_title": "Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Well control",
  "text": "(1) Before an operation in relation to a well (including the drilling of a well) is begun elsewhere than at a borehole site to which the Borehole Sites and Operations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 apply, the well-operator shall ensure that suitable well control equipment is provided for use during such operations to protect against blowouts.\n(2) In the case of an operation to which paragraph (1) applies which is begun—\n(a) from an installation, the duty holder; and\n(b) otherwise than from an installation, the well-operator,\nshall ensure that equipment provided pursuant to paragraph (1) is deployed when the prevailing well and operational conditions so require.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in operation at 21.7.1996, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1995 No. 491"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/228",
      "affecting_title": "Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/228/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-14T03:32:24.476906+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."
}