{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998/section-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998/section-45.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/17",
  "legislation_title": "Petroleum Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-act-1998",
  "path": "section/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part IV.",
  "text": "In this Part of this Act—\n“abandonment programme” has the meaning given by section 29;\n“foreign sector of the continental shelf” has the meaning given by section 48(1);\n“offshore installation” has the meaning given by section 44;\n“relevant waters” has the meaning given by section 44(4);\n“submarine pipeline” means a pipeline within the meaning of section 26 which is , or is intended to be established, 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.\nbut does not include any such pipeline which, by virtue of an order under subsection (2A) of section 24, is to be disregarded for the purposes of Part 3 of this Act (other than that subsection).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 45 inserted (26.1.2009) by Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), s. 110(2), Sch. 5 para. 11; S.I. 2009/45, art. 2(e)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 45 inserted (1.4.2010) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), s. 324(3), Sch. 8 para. 8 (with s. 111); S.I. 2010/298, art. 2, Sch. para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1964 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 applied (with modifications) (26.12.2023) by 2008 c. 32, s. 30(1AA)(1AB) (as inserted by Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), ss. 95(3), 334(3)(b))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/17/section/45",
    "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."
}