{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-exploration-and-production-landward-areas-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-3.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/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prospecting methods",
  "text": "(1) The rights granted by this licence include prospecting and carrying out geological surveys by physical or chemical means for the purpose of obtaining geological information about strata in the Exploration Area.\n(2) The rights granted by this licence do not include the right to get Petroleum or to drill Wells.\n(3) The Licensee shall give the OGA at least 21 days’ written notice of any proposed seismic survey, during the term of this licence, of any area which is not wholly on the seaward side of the low water line in such a form as shall from time to time be approved by the OGA. Such notice shall include evidence that the planning authorities for the area to be surveyed have been consulted about the proposed survey and, in a case where any planning permission under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 is required for the survey in question, evidence that such permission has been granted.\n(4) The Licensee shall not carry out any seismic survey during the term of this licence of any such area as is mentioned in paragraph (3) of this clause if notice has not been given as required by that paragraph or if the OGA indicates to the Licensee within 14 days of the receipt of such notice that the survey is not to be carried out.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 clause 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(47)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 clause 3 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/3/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}