{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/981",
  "legislation_title": "The Petroleum (Production) (Landward Areas) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—\n“the Act” means the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934;\n“blocks” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation 6(2);\n“Gazette notice” means a notice published from time to time by the Secretary of State in the London Gazette and the Edinburgh Gazette;\n“landward areas” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation 3 and “seaward areas” (when used in Schedule 1 to these Regulations) means areas on the seaward side of the lines there referred to;\n“low water line” has the same meaning as it has in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;\n“methane drainage licence” means a licence to get natural gas in the course of operations for making and keeping safe mines whether or not disused;\n“principal licence” means a licence of any description under the Act other than a methane drainage licence or a supplementary seismic survey licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/981/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:36.501731+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."
}