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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-capture-utilisation-and-storage-and-offshore-hydrogen-production-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/185",
  "legislation_title": "The Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage and Offshore Hydrogen Production (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-capture-utilisation-and-storage-and-offshore-hydrogen-production-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations 1996",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) of the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations 1996 (interpretation), in the definition of “well operator” for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) in relation to a well in external waters—\n(i) used for the injection of carbon dioxide for the purposes of storage or associated activities or for the storage of hydrogen or associated activities, has the same meaning of “licensee” as in regulation 2(1) of the 2015 Regulations;\n(ii) otherwise, has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Offshore Petroleum Licensing (Offshore Safety Directive) Regulations 2015”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/913; amended by S.I. 2015/398; there are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/185/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:31.827821+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}