{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1436",
  "legislation_title": "The Petroleum (Production) (Landward Areas) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995",
  "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 7(2);\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“Official Journal” means the Official Journal of the European Communities;\n“the OGA” means the Oil and Gas Authority;\n“petroleum exploration and development licence” means a licence granted pursuant to these Regulations to search and bore for and get petroleum in a landward area;\n“principal licence” means a licence of any description under the Act other than a methane drainage licence or a supplementary seismic survey licence.\n“Scottish onshore area” has the meaning given by section 8A of the Petroleum Act 1998;\n“supplementary seismic survey licence” means a licence to search for petroleum by undertaking seismic surveys in an area adjacent to an area to which a principal licence relates; ...\n“Welsh onshore area” has the meaning given by section 8A of the Petroleum Act 1998; and\n“work programme” means a scheme of prospecting including any geological survey by any physical or chemical means and any test drilling.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations (except reg. 9(2)(c), Sch. 5) cease to have effect (for specified purposes) (30.6.2015) by The Petroleum Licensing (Applications) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/766), regs. 1, 3 (with reg. 4(7))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (9.2.2018) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 48(22), 72(4)(c); S.I. 2018/163, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (1.10.2018) by virtue of The Scotland Act 2016, Wales Act 2017 and Onshore Petroleum (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions and Model Clauses) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/980), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a) (with reg. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.10.2018) by The Scotland Act 2016, Wales Act 2017 and Onshore Petroleum (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions and Model Clauses) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/980), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b) (with reg. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 30.6.1995, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1436/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:08:27.310548+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."
}