{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of the Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), these Regulations shall have effect in relation to applications for, and (unless the OGA thinks fit to modify or exclude them in any particular case) the model clauses to be prescribed for inclusion in, licences to search and bore for, and get, petroleum in strata in the areas of Great Britain and beneath the waters adjacent thereto which lie on the landward side of lines drawn in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 1 to these Regulations (in these Regulations referred to as “landward areas”).\n(1A) These regulations do not apply to applications for licences to search and bore for, and get, petroleum within the Scottish onshore area or the Welsh onshore area.\n(2) The Petroleum (Production) (Landward Areas) Regulations 1991 shall cease to have effect in relation to—\n(a) applications made after the date of coming into force of these Regulations for any licence in respect of a landward area; and\n(b) the model clauses to be incorporated in any such licence to be granted after the date of coming into force of these Regulations in pursuance of an application lodged after that date.\n(3) The Petroleum (Production) Regulations 1982 shall cease to have effect in relation to—\n(a) applications made after the date of coming into force of these Regulations for a methane drainage licence; and\n(b) the model clauses to be incorporated in any such licence to be granted after the date of coming into force of these Regulations in pursuance of an application lodged after that date.",
  "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. 3(1) inserted (9.2.2018) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 48(23), 72(4)(c); S.I. 2018/163, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Energy (Transfer of Functions, Consequential Amendments and Revocation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/912), regs. 1(1), 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1A) inserted (9.2.2018) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 48(24), 72(4)(c); S.I. 2018/163, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1A) 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(3) (with reg. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 30.6.1995, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/981."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1000 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1436/regulation/3",
    "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."
}