{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/32",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Licences",
  "text": "(1) The OGA may grant a person a licence in respect of one or more activities within section 2(3).\n(2) The controlled place in respect of which a licence is granted may be determined by reference to the provisions of a Crown lease which has been or may be granted.\n(3) For this purpose “Crown lease” means (as the case may be)—\n(a) a lease of property forming part of the Crown Estate, or an authorisation to exercise rights forming part of that Estate (whether by virtue of section 1 or otherwise), or\n(b) a lease of property forming part of the Scottish assets, or an authorisation to exercise rights forming part of those assets (whether by virtue of section 1 or otherwise).\n(4) In subsection (3), “Scottish assets” means any property, rights and interests to which section 90B(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 applies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) substituted (1.10.2016) by Energy Act 2016 (c. 20), s. 84(3), Sch. 1 para. 42; S.I. 2016/920, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(3) substituted (1.4.2017) by The Crown Estate Transfer Scheme 2017 (S.I. 2017/524), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 39(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 4(4) inserted (1.4.2017) by The Crown Estate Transfer Scheme 2017 (S.I. 2017/524), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 39(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 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/4",
    "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."
  }
}