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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-activities-oil-pollution-prevention-and-control-regulations-2005/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2055",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-activities-oil-pollution-prevention-and-control-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Fees",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may, in accordance with a charging scheme made by her for this purpose, charge operators fees in respect of any of the matters to which this paragraph applies.\n(2) The matters to which paragraph (1) applies are—\n(a) the grant of a permit;\n(b) the variation of a permit or of the conditions to which it is subject;\n(c) the assignment of a permit;\n(d) the revocation or surrender of a permit;\n(e) the subsistence of a permit;\n(f) the testing or analysis of substances;\n(g) the validating of, or of the results of, any testing or analysis of substances; and\n(h) the assessment of the effect upon the environment of the release into it of any oil,\nbut paragraph (1) only applies to the matters referred to in sub-paragraphs (f) to (h) in cases where the testing, analysis, validating or assessment is in any way in anticipation of, or otherwise in connection with, the making of permit applications or is carried out in pursuance of conditions to which the permit is subject.\n(3) A charging scheme made under this regulation shall be so framed that the fees and charges payable under the scheme are sufficient, taking one year with another, to cover such expenditure as may be incurred by or on behalf of the Secretary of State in connection with any of the matters to which paragraph (1) applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/404",
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    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017"
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    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/983",
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    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2011/983",
      "affecting_title": "The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2017/404",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2017/404",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2055/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:54.728267+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."
}