Regulation 2

The Submarine Pipe-lines (Inspectors etc.) Regulations 1977^f1 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) below.

At the end of regulation 2(1) of those Regulations, there shall be inserted the words “excluding any pipe-line or part of a pipe-line which is in, under or over the territorial sea adjacent to Northern Ireland.”

For each reference in those Regulations to the Secretary of State for Energy there shall be substituted a reference to the Health and Safety Executive.