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1 Meaning of “petroleum”.U.K.

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.

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