Regulation 27 Transitional provisionsI1

In the case of a pipeline, the construction of which is commenced within 6 months after the coming into operation of these Regulations, it shall be sufficient compliance with regulation 20 if the particulars specified in Schedule 4 are notified to the Department within 3 months after the coming into operation of these Regulations.

Subject to paragraph (3), in the case of a major accident hazard pipeline, the construction of which was commenced (and whether or not completed) before the coming into operation of these Regulations, the particulars specified in Schedule 4 (or, in the case of paragraphs 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 of that Schedule, particulars, where appropriate, of the actual route of the pipeline or of the riser, materials used, fluid conveyed, and the temperature and pressure, and maximum rate of flow of that fluid) shall be notified to the Department within 6 months after the coming into operation of these Regulations.

Paragraph (2) shall not have effect where, pursuant to regulation 3(1) of the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984^f1, the particulars relating to that pipeline specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to those Regulations have been supplied before the coming into operation of these Regulations.

In the case of a pipeline the design of which was completed before or within 12 months after the coming into operation of these Regulations regulation 23(1) shall have effect as if, for the words “before the design of a major accident hazard pipeline is completed,” there were substituted the words “within 12 months after the coming into operation of these Regulations”.

In the case of a pipeline which was first used before the coming into operation of these Regulations, it shall be sufficient compliance with the requirement in regulation 24(1) where the matters referred to therein are recorded within 6 months after the coming into operation of these Regulations.

Where the Department receives a notification referred to in regulation 20 within 6 months after the coming into operation of these Regulations, paragraph (1) of regulation 25 shall have effect in relation to the pipeline notified as if the reference in that paragraph to 9 months were a reference to 18 months.