Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE MINERALS ACT 1994 - SECT 28

                   For the purposes of this Act, a core, cutting or sample is a confidential sample if:

                     (a)  a licence holder has given it to the Designated Authority; and

                     (b)  it was recovered in the course of activities authorised by the licence; and

                     (c)  it was recovered from an area of the seabed or subsoil of an offshore area that is covered by the licence or a successor licence to the licence.