Petroleum Safety (Petroleum Incident) Regulations 2016.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the Petroleum Safety (Petroleum Incident) Regulations 2016.
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paragraphs: These Regulations shall come into operation on 13th April 2016 and shall replace S.I. 81 of 2016.
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paragraphs: Regulations entitled Petroleum Safety (Petroleum Incident) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 4 of 2014 ) are hereby revoked.
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paragraphs: Petroleum Safety (Petroleum Incident) Regulations 2014 shall remain in force for the purposes of dealing with an incident or incidents reported or reportable thereunder for the purpose only of dealing with that incident or incidents.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) an event involving an explosion, fire, loss of well control, or release of oil, gas or dangerous substances involving, or with a significant potential to cause, fatalities or serious personal injury,
(b) an event leading to serious damage of petroleum infrastructure involving, or with a significant potential to cause, fatalities or serious personal injury,
(c) any other event leading to fatalities or serious injury to multiple persons, or
(d) any major environmental incident resulting from incidents referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) and which relates to petroleum activities carried out offshore;
(a) any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas and other liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons and their derivatives or constituent substances existing in its natural condition in strata (including, without limitation, distillate, condensate, casinghead gasoline and other substances that are ordinarily produced from oil and gas wells), and
(b) any other substance contained in oil and natural gas brought to the surface with them in the normal process of extraction,
(a) an exploration licence granted under Section 8 of the Act of 1960;
(b) a petroleum prospecting licence granted under Section 9 of the Act of 1960;
(c) a reserved area licence granted under Section 19 of the Act of 1960;
(d) a lease undertaking granted under Section 10 of the Act of 1960;
(e) a petroleum lease granted under Section 13 of the Act of 1960;
(f) a consent given under Section 40 of the Act of 1976;
(a) an injury to a person where the person cannot perform all of their normal work activities for more than 7 consecutive days (not including the day of the petroleum incident, but including subsequent nonworking days); or
(b) any injury to a person that requires admittance to a hospital for more than 24 hours.
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paragraphs: The following classes shall be a major accident event or incident which may materially increase the risk of an event or occurrence referred to in Section 13U(1)(a) to (d) of the Act of 1999 occurring that is a petroleum incident and should be read in conjunction with the Commission Guidance for Notification of Incidents for the time being-
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paragraphs: The prescribed form of notification of a petroleum incident to be used by an operator or owner shall be in the form set out in Schedule A hereto and shall contain the following classes of information:
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paragraphs: In these Regulations—
(a) a word or expression that is used in these Regulations and is also used in the Act of 1999 has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Act of 1999;
(b) where a word or expression is given a meaning in the Act of 1999 or in these Regulations then, except where the context otherwise requires, any cognate word or expression used in these Regulations shall be construed accordingly;