The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2013

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;

“activity” includes, unless the context otherwise requires, a diving project and standing a vessel by;

“designated area” means any area designated by order under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964(1) and “within a designated area” includes over and under it;

“diving project” has the same meaning as it has in the Diving at Work Regulations 1997(2) save that it includes an activity in which a person takes part as a diver wearing an atmospheric pressure suit and without breathing in air or other gas at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure;

“gas importation and storage zone” has the meaning given by section 1(5) of the Energy Act 2008(3) and “within a gas importation and storage zone” includes over and under it;

“offshore installation” has the meaning given in article 4(2) and (3) of this Order;

“the prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act” means sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the 1974 Act;

“supplementary unit” means a fixed or floating structure, other than a vessel, for providing energy, information or substances to an offshore installation;

“territorial sea” means the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain and “within the territorial sea” includes on, over and under it; and

“vessel” includes a hovercraft and any floating structure which is capable of being navigated.

(2) For the purposes of this Order, any structures and devices on top of a well are treated as forming part of the well.

(1)

1964 c. 29; section 1(7) was amended by the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23), Schedule 3, paragraph 1 and by the Energy Act 2011 (c. 16), section 103.

(2)

S.I. 1997/2776.

(3)

2008 c. 32; section 1(5) is prospectively amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraph 5(1) and (2). Section 1(5) of the Energy Act 2008 would continue to define the term “gas importation and storage zone” after the amendment.