Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 1 modified (13.11.2009 for specified purposes) by Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), ss. 15(3), 110(2); S.I. 2009/2809, art. 2 (with art. 4)
In this Part of this Act “petroleum”—
(a)includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata; but
(b)does not include coal or bituminous shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation.