# Petroleum Act 1998, Paragraph 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The Continental Shelf Act 1964 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 1 (exploration and exploitation of continental shelf), subsection (3) and, in subsection (8), the words from “and “petroleum”” to the end shall be omitted.
(3) In ... section 7 (radioactive substances) for “section 23 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982” there shall be substituted “ section 11 of the Petroleum Act 1998 ”.
(4) At the end of section 8 (submarine cables and pipe-lines) there shall be added—
“(1A) It is hereby declared that the reference in subsection (1) of this section to pipe-lines under the high seas includes pipe-lines under the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/17/schedule/4/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998/schedule-4/paragraph-2
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