{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/32",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exception for activities carried on partly on land etc",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter does not apply in relation to—\n(a) the use of a controlled place for the unloading of gas to an installation which is connected with land by a permanent structure providing access at all times and for all purposes;\n(b) the conversion of a natural feature of which part is in a controlled place and part under land, if the operations necessary for the conversion take place wholly or mainly on, over or under land;\n(c) the use of a place for the storage of gas, or the recovery of gas so stored, where—\n(i) the gas was, or is to be, introduced into the store by means of a well on land, and\n(ii) part of the place is a controlled place and part is under land;\n(d) the establishment or maintenance of an installation for the purposes of activities falling within paragraph (a).\n(2) In this section—\n“land” means—\n(a)land in England;\n(b)land in Wales;\n(c)land in Scotland landward of the low water mark;\n“well” includes a borehole.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 13.11.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/2809, art. 2 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/32/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:30.740276+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}