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These Regulations may be cited as the Submarine Pipe-lines (Inspectors and Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
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(1) The Submarine Pipe-lines (Inspectors etc.) Regulations 1977 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) below.
(2) At the end of regulation 2(1) of those Regulations, there shall be inserted the words “excluding any pipe-line or part of a pipe-line which is in, under or over the territorial sea adjacent to Northern Ireland.”
(3) For each reference in those Regulations to the Secretary of State for Energy there shall be substituted a reference to the Health and Safety Executive.
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(1) The Submarine Pipe-lines Safety Regulations 1982 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) below.
(2) At the end of Regulation 1(3) of those Regulations, there shall be inserted the words “Reference to a controlled pipe-line does not include any pipe-line or part of a pipe-line which is in, under or over the territorial sea adjacent to Northern Ireland.”
(3) For each reference in those Regulations to the Secretary of State for Energy there shall be substituted a reference to the Health and Safety Executive.
Colin Moynihan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Energy
13th March 1991