{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-prevention-of-fire-and-explosion-and-emergency-response-regulations-1995/regulation-22B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-prevention-of-fire-and-explosion-and-emergency-response-regulations-1995/regulation-22B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/743",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-prevention-of-fire-and-explosion-and-emergency-response-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/22B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22B",
  "heading": "Initiation and direction of emergency response and liaison with external response authority",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies only in relation to external waters.\n(2) The duty holder must authorise one or more persons—\n(a) to initiate an emergency response;\n(b) to direct an emergency response; and\n(c) to liaise with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 22A-22C 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. 23 (with reg. 4(2), Sch. 14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/743/regulation/22B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:05.380287+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."
}