{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-landward-areas-regulations-1995/schedule-4/paragraph-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": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Right to search for petroleum by undertaking seismic surveys",
  "text": "In consideration of the payments hereinafter provided and the performance and observance by the Licensee of all the terms and conditions hereof, the Minister in exercise of his powers under the Act of 1934 hereby grants to the Licensee, as holder of Licence No. (hereinafter referred to as “the principal licence”) LICENCE AND LIBERTY in common with any other persons to whom the like right may have been granted or may hereafter be granted during the continuance of this licence and subject to the provisions hereof to search for petroleum underlying the area to which the principal licence relates by undertaking seismic surveys in the adjacent area more particularly described in Schedule 1 to this licence.\nProvided that nothing in this licence shall affect the right of the Minister to grant other licences under the Act of 1934 in respect of the whole or any part of the exploration area, or affect the exercise of any rights granted by such licence.",
  "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. 4 clause 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/schedule/4/paragraph/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."
}