Statutory Instruments
1991 No. 679
OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS
The Offshore Installations (Amendment) Regulations 1991I1,I2,I3,I4,I5
Made
13th March 1991
Laid before Parliament
15th March 1991
Coming into force
1st April 1991
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2, 4(1) and (4), 5(7), 6 and 12(1) of, and paragraphs 11 and 12 of the Schedule to, the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971(2) (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consulting pursuant to section 7(1) of the Act with organisations in the United Kingdom appearing to him to be representative of those persons who will be affected, hereby makes the following Regulations:–
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
2.—(1) The Offshore Installations (Registration) Regulations 1972(3) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In place of the references to the Department of Trade and Industry in regulation 3(1) and (4) there shall be substituted references to the Health and Safety Executive.
3.—(1) The Offshore Installations (Managers) Regulations 1972(4) shall be amended as follows.
(2) The following paragraph shall be added to regulation 2–
“(3) The notices referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) above shall be addressed to the Secretary of State at the offices of the Health and Safety Executive.”
(3) In place of the reference to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in regulation 4 there shall be substituted a reference to the Health and Safety Executive.
(4) The words “To the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry” shall be omitted from the forms set out in Schedule 1 and 2.
4.—(1) The Offshore Installations (Logbooks and Registration of Death) Regulations 1972(5) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In place of the reference to the Department of Trade and Industry in regulation 1(2) there shall be substituted a reference to the Health and Safety Executive.
(3) In place of the reference to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in regulation 5 there shall be substituted a reference to the Health and Safety Executive.
5.—(1) The Offshore Installations (Inspectors and Casualties) Regulations 1973(6) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In place of the references to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in regulations 10(a), (b) and (c), the reference to the Secretary of State in regulation 11 and the references to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in regulations 12(2)(b) and 14(2) there shall be substituted references to the Health and Safety Executive.
Colin Moynihan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Energy
13th March 1991
See the definition of “prescribed”.
1971 c. 61. Section 1 of the 1971 Act was substituted by the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23), section 24; section 6 was amended by Schedule 3 of that Act, paragraphs 8 and 10, and it should be read with section 44(5) of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 (c. 74).
S.I. 1972/702.
S.I. 1972/703.
S.I. 1972/1542.
S.I. 1973/1842. The functions conferred on the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry by the instruments referred to in regulations 2-5 were transferred to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of State (New Departments) Order 1974 (S.I. 1974/692); article 5of that Order made consequential provision in relation to references to the Department of Trade and Industry.