{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-36.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1686",
  "legislation_title": "The Petroleum Licensing (Exploration and Production) (Landward Areas) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Right of distress",
  "text": "(1) This clause applies in respect of any part of the Licensed Area situated in England or Wales.\n(2) If and whenever any of the payments mentioned in clause 12(1) of this licence or any part thereof shall be in arrear or unpaid for 28 days next after any of the days whereon the same ought to be paid (whether the same shall have been legally demanded or not) then and so often as the same may happen the OGA may (as an additional remedy and without prejudice to any other rights and remedies to which it would be entitled) enter into and upon any land which shall for the time being be possessed or occupied by the Licensee for the purposes of the licence or the exercise of any of the rights thereby granted or into and upon any of the Licensee’s installations and equipment used or to be used in connection with searching, boring for or getting Petroleum in the Licensed Area and may seize and distrain and sell as a landlord may do for rent all or any of the stocks of Petroleum, engines, machinery, tools, implements, chattels and effects belonging to the Licensee which shall be found in or upon or about the land installations and equipment so entered upon and out of the moneys arising from the sale of such distress may retain and pay all the arrears of the said payments and also the costs and expenses of and incident to any such distress and sale rendering the surplus (if any) to the Licensee.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 clause 36(2) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 23(35)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 clause 36(2) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 23(35)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 clause 36 in force at 17.7.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1686/schedule/2/paragraph/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:37.446752+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."
}