Regulation 8 Applications for appraisal and development licences
An application for an appraisal or development licence may be made at any time.
Every such application shall relate to a clearly defined area, the boundaries of which, so far as is practicable—
run north, south, east and west; and
each extend for 100 metres or a multiple of 100 metres.
No application for an appraisal or development licence may be made except by or with the consent in writing of the holder of any exploration licence or appraisal licence, as the case may be, which relates to any part of the area comprised in the application.
Every application for a development licence shall be accompanied by two copies of the programme in accordance with which the applicant proposes—
to erect or carry out any relevant works, either in the area to which the application relates or elsewhere, for the purpose of getting petroleum from that area or for the purpose of conveying to a place on land petroleum got from that area; and
to get petroleum from that area otherwise than in the course of searching for petroleum or drilling wells.
The programme referred to in paragraph (4) of this regulation shall specify—
the relevant works which the applicant proposes to erect or carry out for either of the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (4) of this regulation;
the proposed locations of the works, the purposes for which it is proposed to use the works and the times at which it is proposed to begin and to complete the erection or carrying out of the works;
the maximum and minimum quantities of petroleum in the form of gas and the maximum and minimum quantities of petroleum in other forms which, in each calendar year of the period specified in the programme, the applicant proposes to get as mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (4) of this regulation.
In this regulation “relevant works” means any structures and any other works whatsoever which are intended to be permanent and are neither designed to be moved from place to place without major dismantling nor intended by the applicant to be used only for searching for petroleum.
Every application for a development licence shall be accompanied by a copy of any planning permission required under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990f1 or the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972f2 before the programme referred to in paragraph (4) of this regulation may be carried out.
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