The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 2003

• Citation: S.I. 2003/2743
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 10th November 2003.

Section 2 Establishment of safety zones

A safety zone is hereby established around each installation specified in column 1 of the Schedule hereto (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Act applies) having a radius of five hundred metres from the point as respects that installation which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to European Datum (1950) specified in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

Section 3 Amendments to orders

(1) In Schedule 1 to the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 1997 —

(a) in the entry relating to Balmoral Well 16/21A-7z, for “01° 08− 17.94' E” in column 3 there shall be substituted “01° 06− 17.94' E”;

(b) in the entry relating to Saltire Wellhead Protection Unit—

(i) for “50° 25− 31.03'” in column 2 there shall be substituted “58° 25− 31.04'”; and

(ii) for “00° 22− 5.1' E” in column 3 there shall be substituted “00° 22− 5.34' E”; and

(c) the following entries are deleted—

(i) Durward 1 Wellheads;

(ii) Durward 2 Wellheads; and

(iii) Dauntless Wellheads.

(2) In the Schedule to the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 2) Order 1997 , for “Osprey/Dunlin – Development Well” in column 1 there shall be substituted “Osprey/Dunlin – Development Well 211/23a-13”.

(3) In the Schedule to the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 1999 , for “Buckland Development Field Block Well 9/18a-4” in column 1 there shall be substituted “Buckland Development Field Block Well 9/18a-28”.