{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/schedule-3/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/schedule-3/paragraph-22.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": "schedule/3/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Appointment of operators",
  "text": "(1) The Licensee shall ensure that another person (including, in the case where the Licensee is two or more persons, any of those persons) does not exercise any function of organising or supervising all or any of the operations of searching or boring for or getting petroleum in pursuance of this licence unless that other person is a person approved in writing by the Minister and the function in question is one to which that approval relates.\n(2) The Minister shall not refuse to give his approval of a person in pursuance of paragraph (1) of this clause if that person is competent to exercise the function in question, but where an approved person is no longer competent to exercise that function the Minister may, by notice in writing given to the Licensee, revoke his approval.",
  "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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 clause 22 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/schedule/3/paragraph/22",
    "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."
}