{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-6.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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Extension of the Initial or Second Term",
  "text": "(1) This clause applies to an extension to be made to the Initial Term or as the case may be to the Second Term (“the relevant term”).\n(2) At any time not later than one month before the expiry of the relevant term the Licensee may, subject to payment of the sums specified in Schedule 2 and to performance of the terms and conditions herein contained, give notice in writing to the OGA that he desires that term to be extended for a further period.\n(3) Where notice is given in pursuance of paragraph (2) of this clause, the OGA may in its discretion direct in writing that the relevant term be extended; and paragraph (2) of this clause shall apply to that term as so extended.\n(4) An extension given by a direction in pursuance of this clause shall be for a period, and subject to such conditions, as the OGA may determine.\n(5) Where a relevant term is extended in pursuance of this clause, clause 3 shall apply in respect of that term as so extended.\n(6) Where the Initial Term is extended by a period in pursuance of this clause, the Second Term shall (without prejudice to paragraph (2)) be reduced by the same amount; and where the Second Term is extended by a period in pursuance of this clause, the Production Period shall be reduced by the same amount.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 clause 6(1) substituted (15.9.2017) by The Petroleum and Offshore Gas Storage and Unloading Licensing (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/855), regs. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 clause 6(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(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 clause 6(3) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 23(8)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 clause 6(3) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 23(8)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 clause 6(4) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 23(8)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 clause 6 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/6",
    "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."
}