{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areasamendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areasamendment-regulations-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2946",
  "legislation_title": "The Petroleum (Production) (Seaward Areas)(Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areasamendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PETROLEUM\nMade 21st November 1996\nLaid before Parliament 25th November 1996\nComing into force 16th December 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(1) of the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934 and now vested in him, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1934 c. 36; section 1 and 2(1) of that Act were amended by section 18 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23) and section 19(1) of the Petroleum Act 1987 (c. 12) so that the 1934 Act applies (retrospectively) to petroleum beneath the territorial waters of the United Kingdom; section 6 was extended by section 1(3) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O 1942/1132; the Ministry of Fuel and Power Act 1945 (c. 19); S.I. 1969/1498, 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2946/introduction",
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  "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."
}