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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-gas-enterprise-act-1982/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-gas-enterprise-act-1982/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/23",
  "legislation_title": "Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-gas-enterprise-act-1982",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Participation agreements as respects onshore petroleum.",
  "text": "In section 1(3) of the Participation Agreements Act 1978 (meaning of “participation agreement”) after the word “petroleum”, in the first place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “ existing in its natural condition in strata in the United Kingdom or ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1978 c. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 8(3), 18, 24, 25(1)–(3)(5), 26(1)(2), 30(2), 31, 37 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/23/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:12:14.418918+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."
}