{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/193",
  "legislation_title": "Pipelines Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Emergency shut-down valves",
  "text": "(1) The operator of a major accident hazard pipeline which—\n(a) is connected to an offshore installation; and\n(b) has an internal diameter of 40 millimetres or more,\nshall ensure that the requirements contained in Schedule 3 are complied with in relation to the pipeline.\n(2) The duty holder in relation to an offshore installation to which a pipeline described in paragraph (1) is connected shall afford, or cause to be afforded, to the operator of the pipeline such facilities as he may reasonably require for the purpose of securing that the requirements contained in Schedule 3 are complied with in relation to the pipeline.\n(3) In this regulation “duty holder”, in relation to an offshore installation, means the person who is the duty holder as defined by regulation 2(1) of the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 in relation to that installation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in operation at 12.5.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/193",
      "affecting_title": "Pipelines Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/193/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:13.631400+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."
}