{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-representatives-and-safety-committees-regulations-1989/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-representatives-and-safety-committees-regulations-1989/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/971",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-representatives-and-safety-committees-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Duties of installation owners and installation managers",
  "text": "In respect of every offshore installation served by a safety committee it shall be the duty of the installation owner and of the installation manager–\n(a) to facilitate the exercise by the committee of its functions and by the safety representatives of their functions and powers in respect of the installation under these Regulations, and for that purpose to make available the necessary accommodation, facilities for communication and office equipment supplies; and\n(b) to consult safety representatives with a view to the making and maintenance of arrangements which will enable them and the workforce to co-operate effectively in promoting and developing measures to ensure the health and safety of persons working on or from the installation, and in checking the effectiveness of such arrangements;\n(c) without prejudice to paragraph (b) above, to consult safety representatives on the preparation of a safety case relating to the installation under the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 23(c) inserted (31.5.1993) by The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2885), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 3 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 18.9.1989, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/398",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/738",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "word revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/743",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/743",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/388",
      "affecting_title": "Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3242",
      "affecting_title": "The Management of Health and Safety at Work"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2007/247",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3117",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/406",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/971/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:28.529020+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."
}