{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areas-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areas-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1213",
  "legislation_title": "The Petroleum (Production) (Seaward Areas) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areas-regulations-1988",
  "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“block” has the meaning assigned thereto in Regulation 7(2);\n“Gazette notice” means a notice published from time to time by the Secretary of State in the London Gazette, the Edinburgh Gazette and the Belfast Gazette;\n“invited application” has the meaning assigned thereto in Regulation 7(1);\n“landward areas” means areas on the landward side of the lines referred to in Schedule 1 and “seaward areas” has the meaning assigned thereto in Regulation 3(1);\n“low water line” has the same meaning as it has in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;\n“non-invited application” has the meaning assigned thereto in Regulation 6(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2946",
      "affecting_title": "The Petroleum (Production) (Seaward Areas)(Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2946",
      "affecting_title": "The Petroleum (Production) (Seaward Areas)(Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1213/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:39.357060+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."
}