{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbons-temporary-management-scheme-regulations-2013/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbons-temporary-management-scheme-regulations-2013/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1329",
  "legislation_title": "The Hydrocarbons (Temporary Management Scheme) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbons-temporary-management-scheme-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Hydrocarbons contracts directed as managed contracts",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by notice given to each relevant party to a hydrocarbons contract, direct that the hydrocarbons contract is to be a managed contract.\n(2) A direction given under paragraph (1)—\n(a) may apply to more than one hydrocarbons contract; and\n(b) must—\n(i) identify each hydrocarbons contract to which the direction relates;\n(ii) give the date on and from which the Secretary of State intends each contract to be a managed contract (“the commencement date”), which date must be no earlier than seven days after the date of the direction; and\n(iii) state the rights period.\n(3) The rights period must commence on the commencement date and end by no later than the end of the management period.\n(4) A hydrocarbons contract may be identified under paragraph (2)(b)(i) by reference to a class or description of contract set out in the direction.\n(5) The Secretary of State may before the commencement date give a notice withdrawing a direction given under paragraph (1).\n(6) A notice under paragraph (4) must be given to each relevant party to whom the direction was given.\n(7) Subject to a direction given under regulation 24, where a direction under paragraph (1) is not withdrawn, a hydrocarbons contract is a managed contract during the rights period.\n(8) In this regulation, a “relevant party” means a person, other than the restricted person, whom the Secretary of State believes may be a party to the hydrocarbons contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1329/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:52:38.703178+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."
}