Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1989/1671
Year1989

1989No. 1671

HEALTH AND SAFETY

The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid)

Regulations 1989

12thSeptember1989

13thSeptember1989

For regulation 5 (2) (a) to the extent specified in regulation 5 (2) (b)For regulation 5 (2) (a) to the extent specified in regulation 5 (2) (b)

13thSeptember1992

For the remainder

13thSeptember1990

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 15(1), (2), (4)(a), (5)(b), (6)(b) and (9), 52(2) and (3), and 82(3)(a) of, and paragraphs 1(1)(c), 6, 10 and 14 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 ( a) ( "the 1974 Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 11(2)(d) of the 1974 Act after the carrying out by the said Commission of consultations in accordance with section 50(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:-

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989 and, subject to the provisions of regulation 5(2)(b) below, shall come into force on 13th September 1990.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

"the 1971 Act" means the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971 ( b) ;

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

"the 1989 Order" means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1989 ( c) ;

"first-aid" means-

(a) in cases where a person will need help from a medical practitioner or nurse, treatment for the purpose of preserving life and minimising the consequences of injury and illness until the appropriate help is obtained; and

(a) 1974 c.37; as applied to and in relation to specified premises and activities outside Great Britain by S.I. 1989/840; sections 15, 50 and 52 were amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c.71), Schedule 15, paragraphs 6, 16 and 17 respectively.

(b) 1971 c.61; section 1 was substituted by section 24 of, and section 12 was amended by section 37 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to, the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c.23).

(c) S.I. 1989/840.

(b) treatment of minor injuries or illnesses which would otherwise receive no treatment or which do not need treatment by a medical practitioner or nurse (in this sub-paragraph "treatment" includes redressing and other follow-up treatment);

"offshore installation" means an offshore installation within the meaning of the 1971 Act which is within-

(a) tidal waters and parts of the sea in or adjacent to Great Britain up to the seaward limit of territorial waters;(b) waters in any area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 ( a) ;(c) inland waters within Great Britain;

"person in control" means-

(a) in relation to an offshore installation-(i) the installation manager, or where no such manager has been appointed, the person made responsible by the owner for health and safety on the installation,(ii) the owner, and(iii) every person who, in relation to the installation, is a concession owner,

all as defined in section 12 of the 1971 Act;

(b) in relation to pipeline works, the owner of the pipeline or the proposed owner of the proposed pipeline as both are defined in section 33(3) of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 ( b) or, if no person has been designated as the owner of the pipeline or proposed owner of the proposed pipeline in pursuance of the said section 33(3), the person in whom the pipeline is vested or the person for whom it is to be constructed;(c) in relation to any activity in connection with an offshore installation-(i) the owner of the installation as defined in section 12 of the 1971 Act, and(ii) the employer of...

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