{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-offshore-safety-directive-safety-case-etc-regulations-2015/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-offshore-safety-directive-safety-case-etc-regulations-2015/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Capacity of operator to meet requirements",
  "text": "(1) Where the competent authority determines that an operator no longer has the capacity to meet the requirements of the relevant statutory provisions, it must immediately inform the licensing authority ....\n(2) In paragraph (1) the reference to an operator includes a reference to a well operator.\n(3) In this regulation “licensing authority”—\n(a) in relation to petroleum extraction and conveyance, means the “licensing authority” within the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Offshore Petroleum Licensing (Offshore Safety Directive) Regulations 2015;\n(b) in relation to carbon capture, utilisation and storage, means—\n(i) in England, “the authority” within the meaning given in regulation 1(3) of the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) Regulations 2010; and\n(ii) in Scotland, “the authority” within the meaning given in regulation 1(3) of the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2011.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage and Offshore Hydrogen Production (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/185), regs. 1(1), 7(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 6(3) 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(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/398/regulation/6",
    "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."
}