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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-production-unloading-and-storage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1497",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Production, Unloading and Storage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-production-unloading-and-storage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "The 1999 Regulations and related legislation",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation “the 1999 Regulations” means the Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999 .\n(2) The 1999 Regulations continue to apply only for the purposes specified in regulation 29 (transitional and savings provisions).\n(3) The following legislation amending the 1999 Regulations is revoked—\n(a) the Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 ;\n(b) the Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 .\n(4) The following provisions amending the 1999 Regulations are omitted—\n(a) regulation 8 of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provisions) Regulations 2015 ;\n(b) regulation 3 of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 ;\n(c) regulation 7 of the Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 ;\n(d) Part 1 of the Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Environmental Impact Assessment and other Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 ;\n(e) regulation 10 of the Oil and Gas Authority (Levy) and Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 ;\n(f) regulation 11 of the Oil and Gas Authority (Levy and Fees) and Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/360. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2007/933, S.I. 2015/1431, S.I. 2016/529, S.I. 2016/912, S.I. 2017/582 and S.I. 2018/1325."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/933."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 2020/448."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/1431. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2016/529, S.I. 2019/439 and S.I. 2020/208."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/529."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/912."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/582."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "S.I. 2019/439."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M9",
      "text": "S.I. 2020/208."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 immediately before 11 p.m., see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1497/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:42.120413+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."
}