Paragraph 32 Reports to be treated as confidentialI1

United Kingdom

All records, returns, plans, maps, samples, accounts and information (in this clause referred to as “the specified data”) which the Licensee is or may from time to time be required to furnish under the provisions of this licence shall be supplied at the expense of the Licensee and shall not (except with the consent in writing of the Licensee which shall not be unreasonably withheld) be disclosed to any person not in the service or employment of the F1OGA or the Crown—

Provided that—

(a)

the F2OGA shall be entitled at any time to make use of any of the specified data for the purpose of preparing and publishing such returns and reports as may be required of the OGA by law;

(b)

the F3OGA shall be entitled at any time to furnish any of the specified data to the Natural Environment Research Council and to any other body of a like nature as may from time to time be carrying on activities of a substantially similar kind to the geological activities at present carried on by the said Council;

(c)

the F4OGA, the said Council and any such other body shall be entitled at any time to prepare and publish reports and surveys of a general nature using information derived from any of the specified data;

(d)

the F5OGA, the said Council and any other such body shall be entitled to publish any of the specified data of a geological, scientific or technical kind either—

(i)

after the expiration of the period of three years beginning with the date when the data were due to be supplied to the OGA in accordance with clause 29 or 30 of this licence, or if earlier, the date when the OGA received those data;

(ii)

after the licence ceases to have effect, whether because of its determination, revocation or the effluxion of time; or

(iii)

after the expiration of such longer period as the OGA may determine after considering any representations made to F6it by the Licensee about the publication of data in pursuance of this sub-paragraph.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. clause 32 inserted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 13(32)(a)
F2: Word in Sch. clause 32(a) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 13(32)(b)
F3: Word in Sch. clause 32(b) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 13(32)(c)
F4: Word in Sch. clause 32(c) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 13(32)(d)
F5: Word in Sch. clause 32(d) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 13(32)(e)(i)
F6: Word in Sch. clause 32(d)(iii) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 13(32)(e)(ii)

Commencement

I1: Sch. clause 32 in force at 6.4.2008, see reg. 1(1)