{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-gas-authority-levy-regulations-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/323",
  "legislation_title": "The Oil and Gas Authority (Levy) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-gas-authority-levy-regulations-2017",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision for imposing a levy on the holders of petroleum licences for the period beginning on 1 April 2017 and ending on 31 March 2018. The levy is payable to meet costs incurred by the Oil and Gas Authority (“the OGA”) in carrying out its functions as well as costs incurred by the Lord Chancellor in connection with the provision of Tribunals to consider appeals against decisions of the OGA.\nRegulation 3 makes provision for the application of the levy to different categories of licensee and makes provision for joint and several liability where the licensee is more than one person. A higher levy rate is payable in circumstances where the holder of an offshore production licence will be producing petroleum or the relevant consent or approval has been given such that there is nothing preventing a licensee from producing petroleum. Licensees who hold offshore exploration licences or who are not yet entitled to produce petroleum under their offshore production licence pay lower levy rates. A discounted pre-production levy rate is payable in relation to promote licences within their “Promote Period” where the licensee is a micro enterprise. Licensees who do not hold offshore petroleum licences are not required to pay the levy.\nRegulation 4 provides for the licensees to be notified of the amount of the levy, the time by which it must be paid and the method of payment.\nRegulation 5 provides for the payment of interest where the levy is paid late.\nRegulation 6 makes provision for any unpaid levy together with interest to be recovered as a civil debt.\nRegulation 7 requires the amount of the levy to be paid by licensees under regulation 3 of the Oil and Gas Authority (Levy) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/318) (“the 2016 Regulations”) to be adjusted if the total amount of the levy to be recovered under the 2016 Regulations exceeds the leviable costs incurred by the OGA and Lord Chancellor in carrying out certain functions during the period beginning on 1 April 2016 and ending on 31 March 2017. These leviable costs include costs incurred by the Secretary of State performing functions of the OGA in that period.\nRegulation 8 similarly requires the amount of the levy to be paid by licensees under these Regulations to be adjusted if the total amount of the levy to be recovered under these Regulations exceeds the leviable costs incurred by the OGA and Lord Chancellor during the period beginning on 1 April 2017 and ending on 31 March 2018.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, additional impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen. An impact assessment was produced for the original levy regulations, the Oil and Gas Authority (Levy) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1661) (“2015 Regulations”). A copy of that impact assessment is available from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at 1 Victoria St, London SW1H 0ET and is available alongside the 2015 Regulations on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/323/note",
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  "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."
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