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  "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",
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  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Reports to be treated as confidential",
  "text": "All records, returns, plans, maps, samples, accounts and information (in this clause referred to as “the specified data”) which the Licensee is or may from time to time be required to furnish under the provisions of this licence shall be supplied at the expense of the Licensee and shall not (except with the consent of the Licensee which shall not be unreasonably withheld) be disclosed to any person not in the service or employment of the OGA or the Crown—\nProvided that—\n(a) the OGA shall be entitled at any time to make use of any of the specified data for the purpose of preparing and publishing such returns and reports as may be required of the OGA by law;\n(b) the OGA shall be entitled at any time to furnish any of the specified data to the Natural Environment Research Council and to any other body of a like nature as may from time to time be carrying on activities of a substantially similar kind to the geological activities at present carried on by the said Council;\n(c) the OGA, the said Council and any such other body shall be entitled at any time to prepare and publish reports and surveys of a general nature using information derived from any of the specified data;\n(d) the OGA, the said Council and any other such body shall be entitled to publish any of the specified data of a geological, scientific or technical kind either—\n(i) after the expiry of the period of three years beginning with the date when the data were due to be supplied to the OGA in accordance with clause 12 or 13, or if earlier, the date when the OGA received those data;\n(ii) after the licence ceases to have effect, whether because of its termination or revocation or the expiry of the Licence Period; or\n(iii) after the expiry of such longer period as the OGA may determine after considering any representations made to it by the Licensee about the publication of data in pursuance of this sub-paragraph.",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. inserted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 15(17)(a)"
    },
    {
      "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(17)(b)"
    },
    {
      "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(17)(c)"
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      "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(17)(d)"
    },
    {
      "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(17)(e)(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(17)(e)(ii)"
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. clause 14 in force at 13.11.2009, see reg. 1"
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  "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."
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