{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-production-seaward-areas-regulations-2008/schedule/paragraph-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-production-seaward-areas-regulations-2008/schedule/paragraph-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/225",
  "legislation_title": "The Petroleum Licensing (Production) (Seaward Areas) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-licensing-production-seaward-areas-regulations-2008",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Returns",
  "text": "(1) The Licensee shall furnish to the OGA on the first anniversary of the Start Date, and at intervals of three months thereafter during the period in which this licence is in force, a return in a form from time to time approved by the OGA of the progress of his operations in the Licensed Area. Such return shall contain—\n(a) a statement of all geological work, including surveys and tests, which has been carried out and the areas in which and the persons by whom the work has been carried out and the results thereof;\n(b) the number assigned to each Well, and in the case of any Well the drilling of which was begun or the number of which has been changed during such period of three months, the site thereof;\n(c) a statement of the depth drilled in each Well;\n(d) a statement of any Petroleum, water, mines or workable seams of coal or other minerals encountered in the course of the said operations; and\n(e) a statement of all Petroleum won and saved.\n(2) Within two months after the end of each calendar year which falls wholly or partly within the period in which this licence is in force and within two months after the expiration or determination of this licence or any renewal thereof the Licensee shall furnish to the OGA an annual return in a form from time to time approved by the OGA of the operations conducted in the Licensed Area during that year or the period prior to such expiration or determination as the case may be together with a plan upon a scale approved by the OGA showing the situation of all Wells. The Licensee shall also indicate on the said plan all development and other works executed by him in connection with searching, boring for or getting Petroleum.\n(3) The Licensee shall furnish the OGA with such information as the OGA may from time to time request about any aspect of activities of the Licensee which are attributable directly or indirectly to the grant of this licence, except that the Licensee shall not by virtue of this paragraph be required to furnish information in respect of his activities in connection with any crude oil after he has appropriated it for refining by him.\n(3A) The functions of the OGA under paragraph (3) shall be exercisable concurrently by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.\n(4) The Licensee shall comply with any request for information made in accordance with paragraph (3) above either—\n(a) within any time limit specified in the request; or\n(b) if there is no time limit specified, within four weeks of the request.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. clause 30 substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 13(30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. clause 30(3A) inserted (20.1.2010) by The Petroleum Licensing (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3283), regs. 1, 4(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. clause 30 in force at 6.4.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/225/schedule/paragraph/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:12.844695+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."
}