Offshore Safety Act 1992
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1992 c. 15 |
securing the safety, health and welfare of persons on offshore installations or engaged on pipe-line works;securing the safety of such installations and preventing accidents on or near them;securing the proper construction and safe operation of pipe-lines and preventing damage to them; andsecuring the safe dismantling, removal and disposal of offshore installations and pipe-lines;repeal or modify any of the provisions mentioned in subsection (3) below; andmake any provision which, but for any such repeal or modification, could be made by regulations or orders made under any enactment there mentioned.the sections 20 and 25 of the Petroleum Act 1998;in the Petroleum Act 1987, the provisions of any regulations or orders made or having effect under any enactment mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs.(4) In this section—
- “offshore installation” means any installation which is an offshore installation within the meaning of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971, or is to be taken to be an installation for the purposes of sections 21 to 23 of the Petroleum Act 1987;
- F3“pipe-line” means, subject to subsection (4A) , a controlled pipeline within the meaning of Part III of the Petroleum Act 1998; and
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“pipe-line works” means works of any of the following kinds, namely—
- (a) assembling or placing a pipe-line or length of pipe-line;
- (b) inspecting, testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing a pipe-line or length of pipe-line;
- (c) changing the position of or dismantling or removing a pipe-line or length of pipe-line;
- (d) opening the bed of the sea for the purposes of works mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) , tunnelling or boring for those purposes and other works needed for or incidental to those purposes;
- (e) works for the purpose of determining whether a place is suitable as part of the site of a proposed pipe-line and the carrying out of surveying operations for the purpose of settling the route of a proposed pipe-line.
- “gas” means any substance which is or (if it were in a gaseous state) would be gas within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986;
- “pipe-line” has the same meaning as in the Pipe-lines Act 1962.
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