SCHEDULE 6PREMISES AND ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL SEA

Other activities6

1

Subject to paragraph (2), this paragraph applies to and in relation to—

a

the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, cleaning, use, operation, demolition and dismantling of any building, energy structure or other structure, not being in any case a vessel, or any preparation for any such activity;

b

the transfer of people or goods between a vessel or aircraft and a structure (including a building) mentioned in head (a);

c

the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;

d

a diving project;

e

the construction, reconstruction, finishing, refitting, repair, maintenance, cleaning or breaking up of a vessel except when carried out by the master or any officer or member of the crew of that vessel;

f

the maintaining on a station of a vessel which would be an offshore installation were it not a structure to which paragraph 2(3)(d) applies;

g

the operation of a cable for transmitting electricity from an energy structure to shore;

h

the transfer of people or goods between a vessel or aircraft and a structure mentioned in head (f).

2

This paragraph shall not apply—

a

to a case where paragraph 2, 3, 4 or 5 applies; or

b

to vessels which are registered outside the United Kingdom and are on passage through the territorial sea.