Regulation 2

For regulation 2(2) of the Offshore Installations (Well Control) Regulations 1980^f1, (hereinafter referred to as “the Regulations”) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

• “No person shall be appointed or shall act as a drilling supervisor unless he is the holder of a certificate granted within the preceding two years by the Secretary of State on the recommendation of the Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Board or its successor, the Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation Limited, that he has an adequate knowledge of well contrl techniques including, in the case of a drilling supervisor, those relating to the safe resumption of normal working.”

Regulation 2(3) of the Regulation and the Schedule thereto are hereby revoked.