The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2206

OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS

The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 1999

Made

3rd August 1999

Coming into force

24th August 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 22(1) and (2) of the Petroleum Act 1987(1) (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 24th August 1999.

Establishment of safety zones

2.  A safety zone is hereby established around each installation specified in column 1 of the Schedule hereto (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Act applies) having a radius of five hundred metres from the point as respects that installation which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to European Datum (1950) specified in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

Removal of safety zone

3.  In Schedule 1 to the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 1999(2) the entry relating to South Drilling Centre Buckland Field Block 9/18 is deleted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Michael Meacher

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

3rd August 1999

Article 2

SCHEDULE Safety Zones

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name or other designation of the offshore installation	Latitude North	Longitude East
Janice Field Well 30/17a-11	56° 23' 42.37"	02° 15' 18.97"
Orion Drill Centre Well P1	56° 26' 04.13"	02° 32' 11.49"
Buckland Development Field Block
Well 9/18a-4	59° 26' 21.02"	01° 34' 18.87"
Balmoral Satellite Well	58° 14' 01"	01° 08' 05"
Balmoral Satellite Well	58° 13' 76"	01° 05' 25"

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the order)

This order establishes, under section 22 of the Petroleum Act 1987, safety zones having a radius of 500 metres from the specified point, around each installation specified in the Schedule to this order and stationed in waters to which section 21(7) of that Act applies (these include territorial waters and waters in areas designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29) (Article 2)).

Vessels, which for this purpose include hovercraft, submersible apparatus and installations in transit) are prohibited from entering or remaining in a safety zone except with the consent of the Health and Safety Executive or in accordance with regulations made under section 23(1) of the Act (currently the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1331)).

The order removes the safety zone in respect of South Drilling Centre Buckland Field Block 9/18 by deleting the entry relating to it in Schedule 1 to the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 1999 (Article 3), because no installation will now be established within the zone.

(1)

1987 c. 12.

(2)

S.I. 1999/547.