The Offshore Installations (Emergency Pipe-line Valve) Regulations 1989

UK Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 1029 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

20 June 1989

In force from

12 July 1989

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries

Made under

Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971, Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations provide for the protection of offshore installations which are connected to a pipe-line conveying flammable or toxic substances from dangers arising from the pipe-line. The Regulations come into force on 12th July 1989. They will apply to pipe-lines constructed under an authorisation granted after that date from the time of construction and to all other pipe-lines from 31st December 1990 (regulation 3). The Regulations require an emergency shut-down valve to be incorporated in the risers which connect pipe-lines to offshore installations at a position on the risers prescribed by the Regulations (regulations 5 and 6). Provisions are made which regulate the re-opening of the valves and impose requirements concerning their periodic inspection and testing (regulations 7 and 8). A prohibition is imposed on the use of pipe-lines which do not comply with the Regulations (regulation 4).

Offences created by this instrument

• In the event of a contravention of regulation 9 above, the person contravening the regulation shall be guilty of an… regulation 12(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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• Statutory Instruments, &C Commons · Commons Chamber · 29 June 1989

  Ordered, That the draft Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts by Children in Rear Seats) Regulations 1989 be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c. That the Education (National Curriculum) (Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1989 (S.I., 1989, No. 825) be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c. That the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) Order 1989 (S.I., 1989, No. 907) be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c. That the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and…

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