Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 129

The Offshore Installations (Life-saving Appliances and Fire-fighting Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

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1987 No. 129

OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS

The Offshore Installations (Life-saving Appliances and Fire-fighting Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 6 of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971^[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consulting with organisations 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 (Life-saving Appliances and Fire-fighting Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st March 1987.

    2.    The following table shall be substituted for the table set out in sub-paragraph (a ) of the Schedule to the Offshore Installations (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations 1977^[2] and for the table set out in sub-paragraph (a ) of the Schedule to the Offshore Installations (Fire-fighting Equipment) Regulations 1978^[3] :—

TABLE

Time spent	Rate per hour or part thereof
On any day except a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday—	between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. £45.50 before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m. £68.25 On a Saturday £68.25 On a Sunday or public holiday £91.00

Alick Buchanan-Smith

Minister of State, Department of Energy

3rd February 1987

The Offshore Installations (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations 1977 prohibit the presence of any person on an installation to which the Regulations apply unless the life-saving appliances on that installation have been examined by a person acting at the direction of the Secretary of State. The Offshore Installations (Fire-fighting Equipment) Regulations 1978 contain a similar prohibition in respect of the fire-fighting equipment provided on an offshore installation. Both the 1977 and the 1978 Regulations require the owner of an installation on which an examination is carried out to pay a fee to the Secretary of State, comprising a sum based on the time spent by the examiner in carrying out the examination and in travelling to and from the installation, calculated in accordance with a table set out in the Schedule to the Regulations, and the cost of his travelling and subsistence expenses. These Regulations substitute in the 1977 Regulations and the 1978 Regulations a new table specifying the rates payable in respect of the time spent by an examiner. These new rates replace those having effect by virtue of the Offshore Installations (Life-saving Appliances and Fire-fighting Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 which were as follows:—

Time spent	Rate per hour or part thereof
On any day except a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday—	between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. £41.50 before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m. £62.25 On a Saturday £62.25 On a Sunday or public holiday £83.00

[1] 1971 c. 61: section 1 was repealed and re-enacted by the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23), section 24: section 6 was amended by Schedule 3, paragraph 8 of that Act and it should also be read with section 44(5) of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 (c. 74). back

[2] S.I. 1977/486, amended by S.I. 1984/419 and 1985/1612. back

[3] S.I. 1978/611, amended by S.I. 1984/419 and 1985/1612. back