Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 2389

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The Working Time (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006

Made

4th September 2006

Laid before Parliament

8th September 2006

Coming into force

1st October 2006

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the organisation of working time, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Working Time (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1^st October 2006.

(2) These Regulations extend to Great Britain only.

Offshore work

2. In regulation 2 (Interpretation) of the Working Time Regulations 1998(3), in the definition of “offshore work” after the words “a vessel” insert the following phrase—

“, including any such work performed in the territorial waters of the United Kingdom adjacent to Great Britain or in any area (except one or part of one in which the law of Northern Ireland applies) designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964(4);”

Margaret Hodge

Minister of State for Industry and the Regions

Department of Trade and Industry

4th September 2006

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Working Time Regulations 1998 which implement Council Directive 2003/88/EC (OJ No.L229, 18.11.2003, p.9). They confirm for the avoidance of doubt that the definition of offshore work includes work performed in the British sector of the Continental Shelf (except in an area or part of an area of the Continental Shelf in which the law of Northern Ireland applies), as well as that performed within the territorial waters of the United Kingdom adjacent to Great Britain.

(1)

See the European Communities (Designation) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1174).

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1998/1833. The definition of offshore work was inserted by regulations 2 and 3 of the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1684).

(4)

1964 c. 29.