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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-injuries-diseases-and-dangerous-occurrences-regulations-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1471",
  "legislation_title": "The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-injuries-diseases-and-dangerous-occurrences-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Wells",
  "text": "In relation to a well (other than a well sunk for the purpose of the abstraction of water)—\n(a) a blow-out (which includes any uncontrolled flow of well-fluids from a well);\n(b) the coming into operation of a blow-out prevention or diversion system to control flow of well-fluids where normal control procedures fail;\n(c) the detection of hydrogen sulphide at a well or in samples of well-fluids where the responsible person did not anticipate its presence in the reservoir drawn on by the well;\n(d) the taking of precautionary measures additional to any contained in the original drilling programme where a planned minimum separation distance between adjacent wells was not maintained; or\n(e) the mechanical failure of any part of a well whose purpose is to prevent or limit the effect of the unintentional release of fluids from a well or a reservoir being drawn on by a well, or whose failure would cause or contribute to such a release.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1471/schedule/2/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:50:56.940901+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."
}