{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-continental-shelf-act-1978/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-continental-shelf-act-1978/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/46",
  "legislation_title": "Employment (Continental Shelf) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-continental-shelf-act-1978",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In section 1 above—\n“cross-boundary petroleum field” means a petroleum field that extends across the boundary between a designated area and a foreign sector of the continental shelf;\n“designated area” means an area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964;\n“foreign sector of the continental shelf” means an area which is outside the territorial waters of any State and within which rights are exercisable by a State other than the United Kingdom with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources;\n“petroleum field” means a geological structure identified as an oil or gas field by the Order in Council concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1964 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/46/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:38.804608+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."
}