SCHEDULE 6PREMISES AND ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL SEA
Pipelines4
1
This paragraph applies to and in relation to –
a
any pipeline;
b
any pipeline works;
c
the following activities in connection with pipeline works –
i
the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;
ii
the loading, unloading, fuelling, repair and maintenance of an aircraft in a vessel,
being in either case a vessel which is engaged in pipeline works.
2
In this paragraph –
“pipeline” means a pipe or system of pipes for the conveyance of any thing, together with –
- a
any apparatus for inducing or facilitating the flow of any thing through, or through part of, the pipe or system;
- b
any apparatus for treating or cooling any thing which is to flow through, or through part of, the pipe or system;
- c
valves, valve chambers and similar works which are annexed to, or incorporated in the course of, the pipe or system;
- d
apparatus for supplying energy for the operation of any such apparatus or works as are mentioned in heads (a) to (c);
- e
apparatus for the transmission of information for the operation of the pipe or system;
- f
apparatus for the cathodic protection of the pipe or system; and
- g
a structure used or to be used solely for the support of a part of the pipe or system;
but not including a pipeline of which no initial or terminal point is situated in the United Kingdom, within the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom, or within a designated area;
- a
“pipeline works” means –
- a
assembling or placing a pipeline or length of pipeline including the provision of internal or external protection for it;
- b
inspecting, testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing a pipeline or length of pipeline;
- c
changing the position of or dismantling or removing a pipeline or length of pipeline;
- d
opening the bed of the sea for the purposes of the works mentioned in heads (a) to (c), and tunnelling or boring for those purposes;
- e
any activities incidental to the activities described in heads (a) to (d);
- f
a diving operation in connection with any of the works mentioned in heads (a) to (e) or for the purpose of determining whether a place is suitable as part of the site of a proposed pipeline and the carrying out of surveying operations for settling the route of a proposed pipeline.
- a