{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areasamendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-production-seaward-areasamendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5.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": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Invited applications",
  "text": "In regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations—\n(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) Subject to paragraph (5) below, every application for a production licence pursuant to these Regulations shall relate to —\n(a) a block, or\n(b) a tranche\ndescribed in a notice published in the Official Journal or to a number of blocks or tranches so described”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), for the words from “areas (in these Regulations referred to as “blocks”)” to the end, substitute—\n“(a) areas to which reference numbers shall be assigned (in these Regulations referred to as “blocks”),\n(b) groups of contiguous blocks to which reference numbers shall be assigned (in these Regulations referred to as “tranches”), or\n(c) both blocks and tranches to which reference numbers shall be assigned,\nin respect of which the Secretary of State is prepared to receive applications for production licences.”;\n(c) in paragraph (3), after the words “the blocks” insert “or tranches”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2946/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:41.301686+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."
}