Health and Safety in Employment (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2013

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Health and Safety in Employment (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2013: revoked, on 4 April 2016, by regulation 79 of the Health and Safety at Work (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2016 (LI 2016/18).

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Health and Safety in Employment (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2013

(SR 2013/208)

Health and Safety in Employment (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2013: revoked, on 4 April 2016, by regulation 79 of the Health and Safety at Work (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2016 (LI 2016/18).

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 20th day of May 2013

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.

Pursuant to section 21 of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister given in accordance with section 21(2) and (3) of that Act, makes the following regulations.

1	Title
2	Commencement
	Part 1 Preliminary provisions
3	Interpretation
4	Meaning of employer and employee
5	Meaning of operator
6	Meaning of independent
	Relationship between Act and regulations
7	Relationship between Act and regulations
	Compliance by previous duty holder or well operator
8	Compliance by previous duty holder of installation or well operator counted as compliance by successor
	Part 2 General duties
9	Application
10	Duty holder must ensure safety of installation
11	Duty holder must appoint installation manager
12	Petroleum workers must comply with instructions
13	Duty holder must take steps to manage hazardous liquids, vapours, or gases
14	Duty holder must take steps to ensure safe disposal of waste petroleum
15	Duty holder must take precautions with sources of ignition
	Part 3 Lower-tier production installations
16	Application
17	Operator must establish major accident prevention policy
18	Operator must review major accident prevention policy
19	Operator must keep records
	Transitional provision
20	Transitional provision relating to existing lower-tier production installations
	Part 4 Notice and safety case requirements
21	Application
	Notice requirements
22	Operator must give design notice
23	Operator must give relocation notice
24	Duty holder must give notice of combined operation
	Requirement for a safety case
25	Installation must not be operated without accepted safety case
26	Requirements for safety case
27	Duty holder must consult petroleum workers
28	Operator must prepare safety case where production exceeds threshold quantities for lower-tier production installation
	Consideration of and decisions on safety cases
29	WorkSafe may request further information
30	WorkSafe must notify duty holder of decision
31	Criteria for acceptance of safety case
32	WorkSafe may impose limits or conditions on safety case
33	WorkSafe may reject safety case
	Revision of safety cases
34	Safety case must be revised in certain situations
35	WorkSafe may request revised safety case
36	Duty holder must give revised safety case within 5 years
37	Decision on revised safety case
	Withdrawal of acceptance of safety case
38	WorkSafe may withdraw acceptance of safety case
	Compliance with safety case requirements
39	Duty holder must ensure compliance with safety case requirements
40	WorkSafe may consent to conduct of activity otherwise than in accordance with safety case
	Duty holder to retain records
41	Duty holder must retain records of safety case
	Transitional provisions relating to safety cases
42	Transitional provision for existing offshore installations
43	Transitional provision for other existing installations
	Part 5 Certificates of fitness and verification schemes for offshore installations
44	Application
	Certificates of fitness
45	Duty holder must ensure installation has compliant certificate of fitness
46	Installation no longer complies with certificate of fitness
47	Recognition of inspection bodies
48	Conditions of recognition
49	Withdrawal of recognition
50	WorkSafe must publish recognition or withdrawal of recognition in Gazette
51	Transitional provision relating to recognition of inspection bodies
52	Inspection body must carry out inspections and issue certificates of fitness
53	Transitional provision relating to certificates of fitness
	Verification schemes
54	Meaning of verification scheme
55	Steps duty holder must take to develop verification scheme
56	Recognition of verification schemes
57	Implementation of verification scheme
58	WorkSafe may withdraw recognition
59	Duty holder must keep verification scheme under review
60	Duty holder must ensure continuing effect given to verification scheme
61	Duty holder must retain record of verification scheme
62	Transitional provision relating to verification schemes
	Part 6 Well operations
63	Application
	General duties
64	Well operator’s primary duty
65	Duty holder must ensure persons have adequate knowledge, skills, support, etc
	Assessment of conditions below ground
66	Well operator must assess conditions below ground before well is designed
67	Well operator must continue to assess conditions below ground
	Duties in relation to design and construction
68	Well operator must ensure well designed to allow safe suspension or abandonment
69	Well operator must ensure use of appropriate materials
	Well control equipment
70	Well operator to ensure use of suitable well control equipment
	Well examination schemes
71	Well operator must prepare and implement well examination scheme
72	Well operator must retain records of well examination scheme
	Notice of well operations
73	Well operator must notify WorkSafe before well-drilling operations
74	Well operator must notify WorkSafe of certain workover and well intervention operations
75	WorkSafe may grant exemptions from notice requirement
76	Well operator must make and retain daily well operation reports
	Part 7 Dangerous occurrences and emergencies
	Notice of dangerous occurrences
77	Application
78	Duty holder must notify dangerous occurrences
	Emergency response plan
79	Duty holder must prepare emergency response plan
80	Duty holder must regularly review emergency response plan
	Protection of accommodation
81	Duty holder must ensure safe accommodation
	Arrangements for managing emergencies, evacuation, and escape
82	Duty holder must ensure temporary refuge provided
83	Duty holder must establish escape routes and provide offshore life-saving equipment
	Management of particular hazards
84	Management of particular hazards in all installations
	Part 8 Miscellaneous provisions
	Fees
85	Fees
	Offences
86	Offences
	Revocation
87	Regulations revoked
	Schedule 1 Matters to be addressed by safety management systems for installation
	Schedule 2 Information required in notice for design or relocation of production installation
	Schedule 3 Information required in notice of combined operations
	Schedule 4 Information required in safety case for installation
	Schedule 5 Form of certificate of fitness
	Schedule 6 Information required for verification scheme
	Schedule 7 Information required in notice of well operations
	Schedule 8 Information required in notice of dangerous occurrence
	Schedule 9 Fees
	Gazette Information
	Reprint notes

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