The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 406

SCHEDULE 14 AMENDMENTS AND REVOCATIONS

PART 1 AMENDMENTS

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

8.  In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation)—

(a) before the definition of “activity” insert—

““the 2007 Regulations” means the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007”;

““the 2016 Regulations” means the Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016;”;

(b) for the definition of “activity” substitute—

““activity” has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1”;

(c) in the definition of “apparatus or works” after “pipeline” insert “in paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1”;

(d) for the definition of “diving project” substitute—

““diving project” has the meaning given in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1”;

(e) after the definition of “duty holder” insert—

““external waters” means the territorial sea and any area designated by order under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964;”;

(f) after the definition of “installation manager” insert—

““internal waters” means tidal waters and parts of the sea in, or adjacent to, Northern Ireland up to the landward limits of the territorial sea;”;

(g) for the definition of “licensee” substitute—

““licensee”—

(a)

in relation to internal waters, means any person to whom a licence to search and bore for and get petroleum in respect of any area within internal waters is granted pursuant to section 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998; and

(b)

in relation to external waters, means an offshore licensee as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Offshore Petroleum Licensing (Offshore Safety Directive) Regulations 2015;”;

(h) for the definition of “operator” substitute—

““operator”—

(a)

in relation to internal waters—

(i)

in relation to the dismantling of a fixed installation (within the meaning given in the 2007 Regulations), has the meaning given in regulation 11(4) of the 2007 Regulations; and

(ii)

otherwise, has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the 2007 Regulations in relation to a production installation;

(b)

in relation to external waters, has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the 2016 Regulations;”;

(i) in the definition of “owner”, after “controls” insert “or is entitled to control”;

(j) for the definitions of “pipeline” and “pipeline works” substitute—

““pipeline” and “pipeline works” have the meanings given in paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1”;

(k) for the definition of “production installation” substitute—

““production installation”—

(a)

in relation to internal waters, has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the 2007 Regulations; and

(b)

in relation to external waters, has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the 2016 Regulations;”;

(l) for the definition of “relevant waters” substitute—

““relevant waters” means internal waters and external waters;”.