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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areas-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Applications for licences",
  "text": "(1) An application for a licence shall be made in writing and shall be in the form specified in Schedule 3 hereto or in a form substantially to the like effect, sent to the Licensing Branch, Oil and Gas Division, Department of Energy, London SW1, and shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee and by such evidence and particulars or documents in support thereof as are referred to in that Schedule and are appropriate to that application.\n(2) If any of the matters stated in an application or any further information supplied by the applicant shall change after the application is made or after the information is given but before a licence is granted or the Secretary of State informs the applicant that the application is refused, the applicant shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Secretary of State giving particulars of the change.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/229",
      "affecting_title": "The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1435",
      "affecting_title": "The Petroleum (Production) (Seaward Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1213/regulation/5",
    "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."
}