{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), within territorial waters these Regulations shall apply to and in relation to pipelines and activities to which the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 apply by virtue of regulation 4(1)(f) of those Regulations.\n(2) These Regulations shall not apply to any pipeline or part of a pipeline of a kind which is described in Schedule 1.\n(3) In the case of a pipeline to which the Pressure Systems and Transportable Gas Containers Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 apply, nothing in these Regulations shall require the taking of any measures to the extent that they are for the prevention of danger within the meaning of those Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 12.5.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1991 No. 471 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    }
  ],
  "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/4",
    "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."
}