{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-case-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-case-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/247",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-case-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Revision of safety case",
  "text": "(1) In addition to the other occasions on which a duty holder must revise a current safety case pursuant to these Regulations, a duty holder shall revise a current safety case—\n(a) when appropriate; and\n(b) when directed to do so by the Executive pursuant to regulation 15(1).\n(2) Revisions made under paragraph (1)(a) which make a material change to the current safety case shall not be effective unless—\n(a) the duty holder has sent a version of the current safety case which incorporates the proposed revisions, showing clearly where they are to be made, to the Executive—\n(i) at least 3 months, or such shorter period as the Executive may specify; or\n(ii) where the revisions relate to a combined operation, at least 6 weeks, or such shorter period as the Executive may specify,\nbefore the revisions are to be made; and\n(b) the Executive has accepted the revisions.\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (2)—\n(a) no well operation shall constitute a material change;\n(b) no revision prepared or made pursuant to regulation 27 shall constitute a material change;\n(c) the movement of a production installation to a new location to be within internal waters there shall constitute a material change; and\n(d) the conversion of a production installation to enable it to be operated as a non-production installation shall constitute a material change,\nto the current safety case for the purposes of paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(3)(c) inserted (19.12.2016) by The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/406), reg. 1, Sch. 14 para. 41 (with reg. 4(2), Sch. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in operation at 21.5.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/247/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:40:50.967504+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."
}