The Petroleum (Production) (Seaward Areas) Regulations 1988

Right of distress

38.  If and whenever any of the payments mentioned in clause 9(1) of this licence or any part thereof shall be in arrear or upaid for 28 days next after any of the days whereon the same ought to be paid (whether the same shall have been legally demanded or not) then and so often as the same may happen the Minister may (as an additional remedy and without prejudice to the power of distress and any other rights and remedies to which he would be entitled) enter into and upon any of the Licensee’s installations and equipment used or to be used in connection with searching, boring for or getting petroleum in the licensed area and may seize and distrain and sell as a landlord may do for rent in arrear all or any of the stocks of petroleum, engines, machinery, tools, implements, chattels and effects belonging to the Licensee which shall be found in or upon or about the installantions and equipment so entered upon and out of the moneys arising from the sale of such distress may retain and pay all the arrears of the said payments and also the costs and expenses incident to any such distress and sale rendering the surplus (if any) to the Licensee.

Note:When the licensed area is situate in the Scottish area, as defined in the Civil Jurisdiction (Offshore Activities) Order 1987, the following provision will be substituted for the foregoing clause.