SCHEDULE 1Premises and activities within territorial waters

Offshore installations2

1

Any offshore installation and any activity on it.

2

Any activity, including diving operations, in connection with an offshore installation, or any activity which is immediately preparatory thereto, whether carried on from the installation itself, on or from a vessel or in any other manner, other than—

a

transporting, towing or navigating the installation; and

b

any activity on or from a vessel being used as a stand-by vessel.

3

Diving operations involving the survey and preparation of the sea bed for an offshore installation.

4

Subject to sub-paragraph (5), in this Schedule “offshore installation” means a structure which is, or is to be, or has been, used while standing or stationed in water, or on the foreshore or other land intermittently covered with water—

a

for the exploitation, or exploration with a view to exploitation, of mineral resources by means of a well;

b

for the storage of gas in or under the shore or bed of any water or the recovery of gas so stored;

c

for the conveyance of things by means of a pipe; or

d

mainly for the provision of accommodation for persons who work on or from a structure falling within any of the provisions of this sub-paragraph,

and which is not an excepted structure.

5

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4), the excepted structures are—

a

a structure which is connected with dry land by a permanent structure providing access at all times and for all purposes;

b

a well;

c

a structure which has ceased to be used for any of the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (4) and has since been used for a purpose not so specified;

d

a mobile structure which has been taken out of use and is not for the time being intended to be used for any of the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (4); and

e

any part of a pipeline.