{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1987/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1987/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/12",
  "legislation_title": "Petroleum Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1987",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part I.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act—\n“abandonment programme” has the meaning given by section 1;\n“offshore installation” has the same meaning as in the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971;\n“submarine pipe-line” means a pipe-line within the meaning of section 33 of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 which is in, under or over waters in—\n(a) the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom, or\n(b) an area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964.\n(2) This Part of this Act—\n(a) so far as it applies to individuals, applies to them whether or not they are British citizens, and\n(b) so far as it applies to bodies corporate, applies to them whether or not they are incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 74."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1964 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16(1) modified (E.W.S.) (6. 3. 1992) by Offshore Safety Act 1992 (c. 15), s. 1(5)(c).S. 16(1) modified (N.I.) (15.9.1992) by S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), arts. 1(2), 3(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/12/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:49.381822+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."
}