{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-pipelines-act-1985/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-pipelines-act-1985/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/62",
  "legislation_title": "Oil and Pipelines Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-and-pipelines-act-1985",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Oil and Pipelines Act 1985.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be so appointed for different provisions or for different purposes.\n(3) Section 3 above, Schedule 2 to this Act and Part I of Schedule 4 to this Act shall come into force on the transfer date; and Part II of the said Schedule 4 shall come into force on the dissolution of the Corporation.\n(4) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8(2): power of appointment conferred by s. 8(2) fully exercised: 1.12.1985 appointed by S.I. 1985/1748, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/62/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:53.226796+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."
}