{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-amendment-order-1981/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-amendment-order-1981/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-amendment-order-1981",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 31st March 1981.\n(2) In this Order:\n“the Frigg Gas Field” means the naturally occurring gas-bearing sand formations of the lower Eocene age located in the vicinity of the intersection of the line of latitude 59° 53&min; North and of the dividing line between the sectors of the Continental Shelf of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Norway and includes all other gas-bearing strata from which gas at the start of production is capable of flowing into the above-mentioned gas-bearing sand formations;\n“oversea company” has the same meaning as in section 406 of the Companies Act 1948;\n“the principal Order” means the Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) Order 1976",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": ", amended by S.I. 1977/588."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/208/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:45:43.292117+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."
}