The Pipelines Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2003

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2003 No. 2563
HEALTH AND SAFETY
The Pipelines Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2003

	Made	2nd October 2003
	Laid before Parliament	10th October 2003
	Coming into force	3rd November 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 15(1), (4)(a), (6)(a), (8) and 82(3)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974[1] ("the 1974 Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 11(2)(d) of the 1974 Act, after the carrying out by the said Commission of consultations in accordance with section 50(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pipelines Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 3rd November 2003.

Amendment of the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996
2. After regulation 13 of the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996[2] there shall be inserted the following regulation -

Iron pipelines

13A.

- (1) Subject to paragraph (3), the Executive shall approve -

if it is satisfied that the programme or modified programme is suitable and sufficient for the period to which it relates.

    (2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Executive may prepare and approve a programme for a period for which no suitable and sufficient programme has been prepared by the operator.

    (3) The Executive shall consult the operator before it approves a programme which it has itself modified or prepared.

    (4) An approval under this regulation -

(5) The operator shall so far as is practicable comply with a programme approved under this regulation.

(6) In any proceedings for an offence for a contravention of regulation 13 it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that at the relevant time -

applied; and

(b) where the proceedings arise from an event involving a failure of a pipe, the operator did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that there was a risk to safety concerning the pipe which required immediate attention.

(7) Any reference in this regulation to a programme is a reference to a programme for the decommissioning of any description of iron pipe used in a pipeline.

(8) In paragraph (7) "iron" does not include steel.".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Des Browne
Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

2nd October 2003

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

     1. These Regulations amend the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996 by inserting regulation 13A (iron pipelines) (regulation 2).

     2. Paragraphs (1), (2), (7) and (8) of regulation 13A provide for approval by the Health and Safety Executive of a programme prepared by an operator, or by itself, for the decommissioning of any description of iron (but not steel) pipe used in a pipeline.

     3. Paragraph (3) provides for consultation by the Executive before approving a programme which it has modified or prepared; paragraph (4) prescribes the manner of approval and provides for its withdrawal.

     4. Paragraph (5) requires an operator to comply with an approved programme.

     5. Paragraph (6) provides a defence in criminal proceedings for failing to maintain a pipeline, where the operator could not have known that a pipe, awaiting replacement under a programme, required immediate attention.

     6. A regulatory impact assessment has not been conducted, as the measures impose negligible cost.

Notes:

[1] 1974 c. 37; the general purposes of Part I of the 1974 Act were extended by sections 1(1) and 2(1) of the Offshore Safety Act 1992 (c. 15).back

[2] S.I. 1996/825.back

ISBN 0 11 047753 7

Prepared 10 October 2003

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