Part 1: The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) The OGA and its core functions Section 1 and 2 and Schedule 1: The OGA and Transfer of functions to the OGA
Section 1 establishes the OGA.
	Section 2 and Schedule 1 transfer statutory functions to the OGA by amending the relevant legislation. Section 2(2) and (3) also confers a power on the Secretary of State to transfer relevant functions to the OGA and make consequential amendments by regulations.
	Section 2(5) provides that regulations may not give the OGA the power to make secondary legislation.
	Schedule 1 slightly modifies the duty transferred to the OGA under section 9B(b) of the Petroleum Act 1998.
	Schedule 1 inserts a new section 9BA into the Petroleum Act 1998 so that the Secretary of State continues to be under a duty to act in accordance with any strategy produced under section 9A(2) when exercising her functions under Part 4, with minor modifications.
	Since onshore petroleum licensing functions in Scotland and Wales are intended to be devolved to Ministers in those territories, provision is made in the Act to allow the OGA to carry out relevant functions on an interim basis.