Statutory Instruments
2011 No. 745
Health And Safety
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) (Variation) Order 2011
Made
16th March 2011
Laid before Parliament
17th March 2011
Coming into force
6th April 2011
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of March 2011
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 84(3) and (4) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974( 1 ), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:
Citation, commencement and revocation
1. This Order may be cited as the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) (Variation) Order 2011 and comes into force on 6th April 2011.
2. This Order revokes the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) (Variation) Order 2009( 2 ).
Variation of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001
3. —(1) The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001( 3 ) is varied as follows.
(2) After article 8, insert—
“ Other activities within a designated area
8A. —(1) The prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act shall apply within a designated area to and in relation to the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, cleaning, use, operation, demolition and dismantling of any structure which would be an offshore installation were it not a structure to which paragraph (3)(c) of article 4 of this Order applies, or any preparation for any such activity.
(2) This article shall cease to have effect on 6th April 2013.
Activities within a renewable energy zone
8B. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act shall apply within a renewable energy zone to and in relation to—
(a) the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, cleaning, use, operation, demolition and dismantling of any energy structure or related structure, or any preparation for any such activity;
(b) the transfer of people or goods between a vessel or aircraft and an energy structure or related structure;
(c) the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;
(d) the operation of a cable for transmitting electricity from an energy structure or related structure to Great Britain;
(e) a diving project associated with any of the works mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) 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 renewable energy zone.
(3) In this article—
“related structure” means a structure, not being in any case a vessel, related to an energy structure, including—
a structure for converting energy produced by an energy structure into a form suitable for transmission to Great Britain; and
a structure mainly for the provision of accommodation for persons carrying out work activities in relation to an energy structure or related structure;
“renewable energy zone” means any area designated by order under section 84(4) of the Energy Act 2004 ( 4 ) and “within a renewable energy zone” includes over and under it.
(4) This article shall cease to have effect on 6th April 2013. ” .
Judith Simpson
Clerk of the Privy Council
1974 c.37 . The general purposes of Part I of the Act were extended by section 1(1) of the Offshore Safety Act 1992 (c.15) .