{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-offshore-petroleum-activities-oil-pollution-prevention-and-control-regulations-2005/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-offshore-petroleum-activities-oil-pollution-prevention-and-control-regulations-2005/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110726227",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-offshore-petroleum-activities-oil-pollution-prevention-and-control-regulations-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This draft supersedes the draft laid on 10th February 2005 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of the earlier draft.\nDraft Regulations laid before Parliament under section 2(8) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament\nENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 2005\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nWhereas the Secretary of State has consulted the persons required to be consulted by section 2(4) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999\nAnd whereas a draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament pursuant to section 2(8) and (9) of that Act;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 2 and 7(9) of that Act hereby makes the following Regulations—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.24; the provisions of paragraph 21A of Part II of Schedule I were inserted into the 1999 Act by section 38 of the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (c.33)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110726227/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:24.409494+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."
}