{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-2A/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-2A/paragraph-1.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/2A/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these clauses, the following expressions have the following meanings—\n“the Licensed Area” means the area for the time being in which the Licensee may exercise the rights granted by this licence;\n“the Licensee” means the person (or all the persons) specified as such in this licence or the licence holder, as relevant to this licence;\n“OGA” means the Oil and Gas Authority;\n“Petroleum” includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata but 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": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (9.2.2018) by The Scotland Act 2016 and Onshore Petroleum (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions and Model Clauses) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/56), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 (with regs. 9, 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1686/schedule/2A/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}