The Offshore Installations (Amendment) Regulations 1991

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[^f00001] of, and paragraphs 11 and 12 of the Schedule to, the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971[^f00002] (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[^f00003] 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[^f00004] 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[^f00005] 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[^f00006] 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.

Signed

Colin Moynihan — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Energy — 13th March 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend provisions of Regulations made under the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971 which refer to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and his Department, by substituting references to the Health and Safety Executive. The provisions in question relate to the maintenance of a Register of Offshore Installations, the issue of forms and logbooks, the submission of certain notices and the reporting of casualties. The Health and Safety Executive will exercise all the functions conferred on the Secretary of State by the 1971 Act and the Regulations under it from 1st April 1991, pursuant to an agency agreement under section 13(1)(b) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the definition of “prescribed”.

[^f00002]: 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).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1972/702.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1972/703.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1972/1542.

[^f00006]: 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.