{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-offshore-safety-directive-safety-case-etc-regulations-2015/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-offshore-safety-directive-safety-case-etc-regulations-2015/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/398",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-offshore-safety-directive-safety-case-etc-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Standards and guidance on best practice",
  "text": "(1) Every duty holder must cooperate with the competent authority to establish and implement a priority plan for the development of standards, guidance and rules which will give effect to best practice in major accident prevention, and limitation of consequences of major accidents should they nonetheless occur.\n(2) Every duty holder must participate in the preparation and revision of standards and guidance on best practice in relation to the control of major hazards throughout the design and operational lifecycle of offshore oil and gas operations , CCUS operations or offshore hydrogen operations, as appropriate.\n(3) The duty in paragraph (2) must be carried out in consultation with the competent authority and making use of the exchanges of knowledge, information and experience of the competent authority with other authorities having such knowledge, information or experience.\n(4) In performing the duty in paragraph (2), every duty holder must consider the matters in Schedule 11 with a view to establishing priorities for the development of standards and guidance and giving practical effect to the prevention of major accidents and limitation of their consequences.\n(5) In this regulation (but not this paragraph) a reference to a duty holder includes a reference to a well operator.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(2) inserted (6.4.2026) by The Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage and Offshore Hydrogen Production (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/185), regs. 1(1), 7(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Health and Safety (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1370), regs. 1(1), 10(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/398/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:46:05.014387+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."
}