Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Environment) Regulations 2012.

These Regulations, consisting of 45 sections divided into six Parts, aim at ensuring that any petroleum activity carried out in the adjacent area is: a) carried out in a manner consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development; and b) carried out in accordance with an environment plan that: i) demonstrates that the environmental impacts and environmental risks of the petroleum activity will be reduced to as low as is reasonably practicable; and ii) has appropriate environmental performance objectives and environmental performance standards; and (iii) has appropriate measurement criteria for determining whether those objectives and standards have been met. The Regulations are divided as follows: Part 1 Preliminary; Part 2 Environment plans; Part 3 Incidents, reports and records; Part 4 Environmental requirements; Part 5 Operators of petroleum activities; Part 6 Transitional provisions.