8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act shall apply within the territorial sea 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 sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph;
(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 (3)(d) of article 4 of this Order applies;
(g)the operation of a cable for transmitting electricity from an energy structure to Great Britain;
(h)the transfer of people or goods between a vessel or aircraft and a structure mentioned in sub-paragraph (f) of this paragraph.
(2) This article shall not apply—
(a)to a case where article 4, 5, 6 or 7 of this Order applies; or
(b)to vessels which are registered outside the United Kingdom and are on passage through the territorial sea.