{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-activities-conservation-of-habitats-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-activities-conservation-of-habitats-regulations-2001/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1754",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-activities-conservation-of-habitats-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of the Directives",
  "text": "(1) To the extent not already provided for by the 2017 Regulations, the Secretary of State and the OGA shall exercise their respective, relevant functions ... in such manner and to such extent as each shall consider necessary to secure that offshore oil and gas activities are carried out in a manner that is consistent with the requirements of the Directives.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 substituted (18.2.2007) by The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habitats) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/77), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (30.11.2017) by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 13(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (1.10.2016) by virtue of The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Conservation of Habitats and Species (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/579), regs. 1, 75; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1754/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:49:14.800373+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."
}