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The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2006

S.I. 2006/952 · Made 29 March 2006

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OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS

Made 29th March 2006

Coming into force 19th April 2006

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 22(1) and (2) of the Petroleum Act 1987f1 (“the Act”), and for the purpose of giving effect to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 24(2A) of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1987 c. 12; section 24(2A) was inserted by S.I. 1993/1823

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Establishment of safety zones
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule SAFETY ZONES
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 19th April 2006.

2Establishment of safety zones

A safety zone is established around each installation specified in column 1 of the Schedule (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Petroleum Act 1987 applies) having a radius of five hundred metres from the point as respects that installation which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to European Datum (1950) specified in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

Signature

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Philip Hunt

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

29th March 2006

SAFETY ZONES

(1)

Name or other designation of the offshore installation

(2)

Latitude North

(3)

Longitude

Blane Drill Centre,

Block 30/3a, Blane Field

56° 54.5'2° 27.25'E

Enoch Wellhead,

Block 16/13, Enoch Field

58° 38.99'1° 32.0'E

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes, under section 22 of the Petroleum Act 1987 (“the Act”), safety zones having a radius of 500 metres from the point around each installation specified in the Schedule and stationed in waters to which section 21(7) of the Act applies (these include territorial waters and waters in areas designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29)) (article 2). Under section 22(2) of the Act, the safety zones may extend outside waters to which section 21(7) of the Act applies.

Vessels, which for this purpose include hovercraft, submarine apparatus and installations in transit, are prohibited from entering or remaining in a safety zone except with the consent of the Health and Safety Executive or in accordance with regulations made under section 23(1) of the Act (currently the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Regulations (S.I. 1987/1331)).