{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-current-model-clauses-order-1999/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-current-model-clauses-order-1999/schedule-4/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/160",
  "legislation_title": "The Petroleum (Current Model Clauses) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-current-model-clauses-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Right of Licensee to determine licence or surrender part of licensed area",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any obligation or liability imposed by or incurred under the terms and conditions hereof, the Licensee may, at any time, determine this licence or surrender any such part of the licensed area as is mentioned in the following paragraph by giving six months' written notice to that effect to the Minister.\n(2) A notice given pursuant to paragraph (1) of this clause may be cancelled by a further notice in writing given to the Minister not less than one month before the expiration of the notice.\n(3) Any area to be surrendered in accordance with the preceding provisions of this licence shall, unless the Minister has otherwise agreed in writing prior to the date on which the appropriate notice is given by the Licensee to the Minister, be a clearly defined compact area—\n(a) which comprises at least ten square kilometres or one fifth of the subsisting licensed area (whichever is the greater) and has a length not more than three times its average breadth; and\n(b) whose surrender leaves as the licensed area one or more clearly defined and reasonably compact areas none of which is less than ten square kilometres or has a length more than three times its average breadth.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 clause 6 in force at 15.2.1999, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/160/schedule/4/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:42.134762+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."
}