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PETROLEUM (PRODUCTION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 6

Persons entitled to compensation.

6.(1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, the right to
compensation in relation to any well shall be deemed to have vested in the
persons who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, were entitled to
any estate in any minerals (excluding an estate in minerals which did not
include petroleum) lying under the appointed area of that petroleum well.

(2) A person shall not be entitled to compensation in respect of petroleum
underlying land which at any time before the commencement of this Act had been
the subject of a merging order made under section 8 of the Act of 1959.

(3) A licensee under a licence granted before the commencement of this Act by
the Ministry under the Petroleum (Production) Act 1918 shall not be taken to
hold, by virtue of that licence, any estate in land or minerals.

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