{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/onshore-hydraulic-fracturing-protected-areas-regulations-2016/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/onshore-hydraulic-fracturing-protected-areas-regulations-2016/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/384",
  "legislation_title": "The Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing (Protected Areas) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/onshore-hydraulic-fracturing-protected-areas-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing (Protected Areas) Regulations 2016 and will come into force on the same day as section 4A(3) of the Act comes into force.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Petroleum Act 1998.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/384/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:18.408362+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."
}