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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/17",
  "legislation_title": "Petroleum Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Meaning of “petroleum”.",
  "text": "In this Part of this Act “petroleum”—\n(a) includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata; but\n(b) does not include coal or bituminous shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/17/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:00.843249+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."
}