The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 2) Order 2022

• Citation: S.I. 2022/740
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 2) Order 2022.

(2) This Order comes into force 21 days after the day on which it is made (“the general coming into force date”), except for article 2(2), which comes into force as provided in article 2(3).

Section 2 Establishment of safety zones

(1) A safety zone is established around each installation specified in column 1 of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Petroleum Act 1987 applies) having a radius of five hundred metres, as respects that installation, from the point which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to the World Geodetic System 1984 specified in columns 2 and 3 of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule.

(2) A safety zone is established around the installation specified in column 1 of the table in Part 2 of the Schedule (being an installation to be stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Petroleum Act 1987 applies) having a radius of five hundred metres, as respects that installation, from the point which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to the World Geodetic System 1984 specified in columns 2 and 3 of the table in Part 2 of the Schedule.

(3) Paragraph (2) comes into force, as respects the installation—

(a) on the general coming into force date, where the installation arrives at its station before that date; and

(b) when the installation arrives at its station, in any other case.

Section 3 Amendment of the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 1997

(1) The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) Order 1997 is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 1 (safety zones), omit the entry relating to “Kingfisher Production Manifold”.