{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-1996/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-1996/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Design with a view to suspension and abandonment",
  "text": "The well-operator shall ensure that a well is so designed and constructed that, so far as is reasonably practicable—\n(a) it can be suspended or abandoned in a safe manner; and\n(b) after its suspension or abandonment there can be no unplanned escape of fluids from it or from the reservoir to which it led.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/913/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:42.468398+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."
}