{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-licensing-offshore-safety-directive-regulations-2015/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-licensing-offshore-safety-directive-regulations-2015/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/385",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Petroleum Licensing (Offshore Safety Directive) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-petroleum-licensing-offshore-safety-directive-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Obligations on the offshore licensee",
  "text": "In respect of an offshore licence, an offshore licensee must—\n(a) for the duration of offshore petroleum operations—\n(i) make adequate provision to cover liabilities which potentially derive from those operations; and\n(ii) maintain sufficient capacity to meet all the financial obligations which may result from any liability for offshore petroleum operations carried out by operators appointed by or in respect of it;\n(b) ensure that production installations and connected infrastructure are only operated in the area to which an offshore licence applies;\n(c) ensure that no operator carries out offshore petroleum operations unless that operator has the capacity to meet the 2013 Directive operator requirements in respect of the specific operations in respect of which it was appointed; and\n(d) take all reasonable steps to ensure that operators meet the 2013 Directive operator requirements in relation to the offshore petroleum operations in respect of which they are appointed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/385/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:46:13.871956+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."
}