Petroleum (Production) Act 1918
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1918 c. 52 |
Petroleum (Production) Act, 1918
(8 & 9 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 52.
An Act to make provision with respect to the searching and boring for and getting Petroleum, and for purposes connected therewith.
[21st November 1918]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Prohibition on persons other than the Crown getting, &c., petroleum.
1. No person other than a person acting on behalf of His Majesty, or holding a licence under this Act for the purpose, shall search or bore for or get petroleum within the United Kingdom, and if any person gets petroleum in the United Kingdom in contravention of this provision, he shall forfeit to His Majesty a sum equal to three times the value of any petroleum gotten by him.
2 Powers of Minister of Munitions.
(1) The Minister of Munitions on behalf of His Majesty may grant licences conferring authority to search and bore for and get petroleum to such persons and upon such terms and conditions as the Minister of Munitions may think fit;
Provided that nothing in this Act shall be construed as conferring on any person any right to enter on or interfere with land for the purpose of searching or boring for or getting petroleum which he does not enjoy apart from this Act, or shall prejudice or affect the rights, if any, of any person interested in any land in respect of petroleum gotten through or from the land in which he is so interested.
(2) Where any such licence is granted a copy thereof shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after the grant thereof.
3 Powers to inspect plans of mines.
(1) For the purpose of ascertaining on behalf of the Minister of Munitions the position of the workings, actual and prospective, of any mines or abandoned mines through or near which it is proposed to sink any shaft or borehole for the purpose of searching for or getting petroleum, any officer, appointed by the Director of the Geological Survey, shall have the same rights as to the production and examination of plans and sections kept in pursuance of sections twenty or twenty-one of the Coal Mines Act, 1911 , or sections fourteen or nineteen of the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act,...
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