Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

11.  In regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Offshore Installations (Emergency Pipe-line Valve) Regulations 1989(1)—

(a)before the definition of “associated installation” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“the 1995 Regulations” means the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995;;

(b)for the definition of “installation manager” there shall be substituted the following definition—

  • “installation manager” means, in relation to an associated installation, the person appointed for the purposes of regulation 6(1)~(a) of the 1995 Regulations who is for the time being in charge of it;;

(c)for the definition of “offshore installation” there shall be substituted the following definition—

  • “offshore installation” means an offshore installation within the meaning of regulation 3 of the 1995 Regulations other than an installation which is—

    (a)

    used exclusively for flaring, or

    (b)

    used exclusively for the loading of substances into vessels or for their reception and storage prior to such loading and which normally has no persons on board;; and

(d)for the definition of “owner” there shall be substituted the following defintion—

  • “owner”, in relation to—

    (a)

    an offshore installation, means the person who is, in relation to the installation, the duty holder as defined by regulation 2(1) of the 1995 Regulations in relation to that installation; and

    (b)

    a pipe-line in respect of which no person has been designated as its owner in pursuance of section 33(3) of the 1975 Act, means the person in whom the pipe-line is vested;.