{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-chemicals-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-chemicals-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1355",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Chemicals Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-chemicals-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Requirement for permit to use or discharge offshore chemicals",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), no person shall use or discharge any offshore chemical ... after the prescribed date otherwise than in accordance with the terms of, and conditions attached to, a permit.\n(2) Where a person is using or discharging any offshore chemical in connection with any offshore activity that began on or before the date on which these Regulations come into force, that person may continue to use or discharge that offshore chemical until—\n(a) such time as the Secretary of State may specify by notice; or\n(b) (if no notice is given by the Secretary of State in accordance with sub-paragraph (a)) the date after the day on which the period of two years commencing on the prescribed date expires.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (30.3.2011) by virtue of The Offshore Chemicals (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/982), regs. 1, 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3) omitted (30.3.2011) by virtue of The Offshore Chemicals (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/982), regs. 1, 5(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1355/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:57:02.168029+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."
}