PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 112C
Land and Environment Court may order deposit of petroleum, money or chattels or prohibit extraction of petroleum
PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 112C
Land and Environment Court may order deposit of petroleum, money or chattels or prohibit extraction of petroleum
(1) On application by any party
to proceedings in the Land and Environment Court, the Court may order any
other party to the proceedings--
(a) to deposit, pending its decision, any
petroleum, money or chattels--
(i) the right to which will, in the opinion of
the Court, be put in issue in the course of those proceedings, and
(ii) which
may then be in, or at any time before the termination of the proceedings may
come into, the possession or control of that other party, or
(b) not to
extract any petroleum the right to which will, in the opinion of the Court, be
put in issue in the course of those proceedings.
(2) An order under
subsection (1) (a) must specify the thing to be so deposited and must direct
the deposit to be made, at or before a time specified in the order, with a
person or at a place so specified.
