{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1991/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Applications for licences",
  "text": "(1) Every application for a licence shall be made in writing and shall be in the form specified in Schedule 2 hereto or in a form substantially to the like effect, sent to Oil and Gas Division, Department of Energy, 1 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5HE and shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee and by such evidence and particulars or documents in support thereof as are referred to in that Schedule and are appropriate to that application.\n(2) Every application for a licence which relates to an area bounded by any of the lines specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be accompanied by two copies of an Ordnance Survey map on a scale of 1:25,000, or such other map or chart as the Secretary of State may allow, upon which the boundaries of the area in relation to which the licence is sought are clearly defined.\n(3) In respect of each applicant for a licence which is a body corporate there shall accompany the application three copies of the most recent audited accounts of such applicant and three copies of the most recent audited accounts of any body corporate having control of such applicant. Subsections (2) and (4) to (6) of section 416 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 shall apply for the purpose of determining whether for the purposes of this paragraph a body corporate has control of another body corporate, with the following modifications, namely—\n(a) for the words “the greater part” wherever they occur in the said subsection (2) there shall be substituted the words “one-third or more”;\n(b) in the said subsection (6), for the word “may”, there shall be substituted the word “shall”, the words from “and such attributions” onwards shall be omitted, and in the other provisions of the subsection any reference to an associate of a person shall be construed as including only a relative of his (as defined by section 417(4) of that Act), a partner of his and a trustee of a settlement (as defined by section 681(4) of that Act) of which he is a beneficiary.\n(4) There shall also accompany the application a list of the bodies corporate whose accounts are submitted pursuant to paragraph (3) above.\n(5) If any of the matters stated in an application or any further information supplied by the applicant shall change after the application is made or after the information is given but before a licence is granted or the Secretary of State informs the applicant that the application is refused, the applicant shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Secretary of State giving particulars of the change.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/981/regulation/5",
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  "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."
}