Petroleum
(Amendment No. 2) (Jersey) Law 2006
A LAW to amend further the Petroleum
(Jersey) Law 1984 with respect to the powers to make Regulations and Orders
under that Law.
Adopted by the
States 29th September 2005
Sanctioned by
Order of Her Majesty in Council 14th February 2006
Registered by the
Royal Court 3rd
March 2006
THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have
adopted the following Law –
1 Article
7 amended
After Article 7(1) of the Petroleum
(Jersey) Law 1984[1] there shall be inserted the
following paragraph –
“(1A) Regulations made under this Article may make
provision for, or in respect of, exemption from those Regulations, including
provision for the Committee to make Orders for, or in respect of, exemption
from those Regulations.”.
2 Article
11 substituted
For Article 11 of the Petroleum
(Jersey) Law 1984 there shall be substituted the following Article –
“11 Regulations
and Orders
A power to make Regulations
or Orders under this Law, or a power to make Orders under Regulations under
this Law, may be exercised –
(a) either in relation to all cases to which the
power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified
exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of case; and
(b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation
to which it is exercised –
(i) the full provision to which the power
extends or any lesser provision (whether by way of exception or otherwise),
(ii) the same provision for all cases in
relation to which the power is exercised, or different provision for different
cases or classes of case, or different provision as respects the same case or
class of case for different purposes of the Regulations or Orders,
(iii) any such provision either unconditionally or
subject to any specified condition.”.
3 Amendment
consequential on move to Ministerial government
In Article 7(1A) of the Petroleum (Jersey) Law 1984, as inserted by this
Law, for the word “Committee” there shall be substituted the word
“Minister”.
4 Citation
and commencement
(1) This Order may be cited as the Petroleum
(Amendment No. 2) (Jersey) Law 2006.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3),
this Law shall come into force on the seventh day following its registration.
(3) If this Law comes into force before
Article 42(3) of the States of Jersey Law 2005[2] comes into force, Article 3 shall come into force on the same
day as Article 42(3) of the States of Jersey Law 2005.
a.h. harris
Deputy Greffier of the States