New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 136

136 Other offences

(1) A person who assaults, hinders or obstructs:

(a) any person duly authorised by any mining appeal court in lawfully entering on any land or in performing any other act authorised by or under this Act, or

(b) any officer, inspector, geologist or other person in the performance of any act or duty or in the exercise of his or her powers under this Act or the regulations,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A person who contravenes:

(a) any conditions subject to which any exemption, suspension or consent is granted under this Act or the regulations, or

(b) any directions or requirements which may be given to or made of the person by notice or otherwise under this Act or the regulations,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) A landholder of any land or any other person who:

(a) obstructs any person prospecting or mining for petroleum in the doing of any act which the person is by or under this Act authorised to do on any such land, or

(b) interferes with, removes, destroys or defaces any notice required by this Act or the regulations to be placed on any land,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.