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The Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State in the United Kingdom and in International Law

Pages 49-58 | Published online: 08 Jun 2015

  • The Case of Mines (1567) 1 Plowd. 311.
  • “Mineral Exploitation in England: the Evolution from Private Law to Public Interest” in The Law of Hard Minerals in 1986, University of Dundee, Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law Studies (1985), p.70.
  • 1868 L.R. 3 H.L. 330.
  • Trinidad Asphalt Co. v. Ambard (1899) A.C. 594 (P.C.) at 602–3.
  • (1926) 43 T.L.R. 100.
  • See T.C. Daintith and G.D.M. Willoughby, Manual of U.K. Oil and Gas Law (1984), p.13.
  • Whether this amounts to “ownership” in the strict sense is open to debate. See Daintith and Willoughby id. at 19 and the references there cited.
  • See e.g. France Fenwick & Co. v. The King [1927) I.K.B. 458; Belfast Corporation v. O.D. Cars [1960] A.C. 490; Hutton v. Esher Urban District Council [1972] Ch. 515 and (1974) Ch. 167; See also footnote 34, infra.
  • See footnote 4 supra.
  • See e.g. Sir William Lithgow v. United Kingdom 5 E.H.R.R. 491, Vosper PLC v. United Kingdom 5 E.H.R.R. 496.
  • See Section 6 et seq, Third Schedule.
  • See Section 10; et seq.
  • Daintith and Willoughby, supra footnote 6 at 13.
  • Petroleum (Production) Act (N.I.), 1964.
  • E.C.S. Wade and A.W. Bradley, Constitutional and Administrative Law (1985), p.498.
  • See section 6, infra.
  • See further R. Higgins and T.C. Daintith in “The Legal Character of Petroleum Licences: A Comparative Study” (1981) and Mineral Law Studies, University of Dundee, pp.35 etseq and 200 el seq respectively.
  • See The Singapore Oil Stocks Case (1956) 231.L.R. 810.
  • The Oil Taxation Act, 1975.
  • See the Petroleum and Submarine Pipelines Act, 1975.
  • See M. Clode, “The State as Regulator and Participator” in Recent Developments in Petroleum Law (1984-85), University of Dundee, Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law Studies, p. 83.
  • See the Oil and Pipelines Act, 1985, which vested certain of BNOC's functions in a new Oil and Pipelines Agency.
  • See in particular Part I to Schedule 2 of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipelines Act, 1975.
  • See Willoughby and Daintith, supra footnote 6 at 73 to 75.
  • Redericktiebolaget Amphitrite v. The King [1921] 3 K.B. 500 at 503.
  • See in particular Sir W.S. Holdsworth, “A Casebook on Constitutional Law,” (1929) 45 L.Q.R. 166.
  • The Contracts of Public Authorities (1954), 27, 52.
  • See the cases cited in footnote 10, supra.
  • See BP Exploration Company (Libya) Limited v. Government of the Libyan Arab Republic 531.L.R. (1979) 297 at 317.
  • See, for example. Resolution 1803 of 1962, and, more importantly. Resolution 3281 of 1974.
  • See, for example, the BP Case (footnote 29, supra), Texaco and Calasictic v. The Government of the Libyan Arab Republic 53 I.L.R. (1979) 389, Liamco v. The Government of the Libyan Arab Republic XX I.L.M. (1981), Kuwait v. AminoilXXl I.L.M. (1982) 976, SPP v. Egypt XXII I.L.M. (1983) 752 and recent cases before the Iran/US Claims Tribunal. See also B.M. Clagett, “The Expropriation Issue Before the Iran United States Claims Tribunal: Is Just Compensation Required by International Law or Not?” (1984) 16 Law and Policy in International Business at 813 et seq.
  • See ibid., paragraphs 146 and 147 of the award in the Aminoil Case.
  • The Tinoco Case (1923) 1 R.I.A.A. at 1101, the Schufeldt Case (1929) 2 R.I.A.A. at 1101, the AIOC Case, I.C.J. Pleadings (1952) at 78.
  • The Queen in Right of British Columbia v. Tener 1985, 17 D.L.R. (4th) (S.C.C.) and see A. Lucas “Acquisition of Natural Resource Interests by the State: Canada” in this volume.
  • Revere Copper v. Opic 561.L.R. 257. Anaconda Copper v. Opic 591. L.R. 406.

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