{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-exploration-petroleum-and-gas-storage-and-unloading-model-clauses-regulations-2009/schedule/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-exploration-petroleum-and-gas-storage-and-unloading-model-clauses-regulations-2009/schedule/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2814",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Exploration (Petroleum, and Gas Storage and Unloading) (Model Clauses) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-exploration-petroleum-and-gas-storage-and-unloading-model-clauses-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Licensee to keep samples",
  "text": "(1) As far as reasonably practicable the Licensee shall correctly label and preserve for reference for a period of five years samples of the sea bed and of the strata encountered in any of the Licensee’s Wells in the Exploration Area and samples of any Petroleum or water discovered in any such Wells.\n(2) The Licensee shall not dispose of any sample after the expiry of that period of five years unless—\n(a) the Licensee has at least six months before the date of the disposal given notice in writing to the OGA of an intention to dispose of the sample; and\n(b) the OGA has not within that period informed the Licensee in writing that it wishes the sample to be delivered to it.\n(3) The OGA shall be entitled at any time—\n(a) to inform the Licensee in writing that it wishes part of any sample preserved by the Licensee to be delivered to it; or\n(b) to inspect and analyse any sample preserved by the Licensee.\n(4) The Licensee shall forthwith comply with any request for the delivery of the whole or any part of any sample which is made in accordance with the preceding provisions of this clause.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(16)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(16)(a)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(16)(a)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(16)(a)(ii)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Sch. substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(16)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(16)(aa)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Sch. substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(16)(b)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. clause 13 in force at 13.11.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2814/schedule/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:03:54.207389+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."
}