Part 8Oil activities
CHAPTER 8Supplementary charge: onshore allowance
Interpretation
356J“Authorisation of development”: drilling and extraction sites
(1)
References in this Chapter to authorisation of development of a site are to be interpreted as follows in relation to a drilling and extraction site that is situated in, or used in connection with, a licensed area.
(2)
The references are to be read as references to a national authority—
(a)
granting a licensee consent for development of the licensed area,
(b)
serving on a licensee a programme of development for the licensed area, or
(c)
approving a programme of development for the licensed area.
(3)
References in subsection (2) to a “licensee” are to a licensee in the licensed area mentioned in subsection (1).
(4)
In this section—
“consent for development”, in relation to a licensed area, does not include consent which is limited to the purpose of testing the characteristics of an oil-bearing area;
“development”, in relation to a licensed area, means winning oil from the licensed area otherwise than in the course of searching for oil or drilling wells;