"director" of a body corporate or corporation includes any person involved in
the management of the affairs of the body corporate or corporation.
"drilling" means the perforation of the earth's surface crust by mechanical
means, whether the hole caused by the perforation is vertical, inclined or
horizontal, and includes all operations for preventing collapse of the sides
of any such hole or for preventing it from being filled with extraneous
materials including water.
"enforceable undertaking" means an undertaking given under Division 6 of Part
13A.
"environment" includes all aspects of the surroundings of humans, whether
affecting any human as an individual or in his or her social grouping.
"environment protection legislation" has the same meaning as in the Protection
of the Environment Administration Act 1991 .
"function" includes a power, authority or duty, and
"exercise" a function includes perform a duty.
"geological survey" includes the examination of areas in the field, the
collection of the necessary specimens of rocks and other materials,
investigations in the laboratory, the preparation of geological maps and
geological sections, and all other operations essential for the determination
of the geological nature, formation and structure of any such area.
"geophysical survey" means the examination of an area with the aid of
instruments with the object of determining some or all of the physical
constituents of geological formations on or below the surface of the earth in
such area.
(iv) a Minister or public authority having an interest in the land under a
conservation, natural heritage or biobanking agreement, or
(v) a person
prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph, or
(g1) a
person identified in any register or record kept by the Registrar-General as a
person having an interest in the land, other than a person to whom paragraph
(g) applies, but only in a provision of this Act in which a reference to a
landholder is expressed to include a
"secondary landholder" , or
(h) a person of a class prescribed by or
determined in accordance with the regulations to be landholders for the
purposes of this definition,
but does not include a person of a class
prescribed as outside the scope of this definition.
"onshore area" means any area of land in New South Wales that is not included
in the territorial sea within the meaning of the Petroleum (Offshore) Act
1982 .
"petroleum" means--
(a) any naturally occurring hydrocarbon, whether in a
gaseous, liquid or solid state, or
(b) any naturally occurring mixture of
hydrocarbons, whether in a gaseous, liquid or solid state, or
(c) any
naturally occurring mixture of one or more hydrocarbons, whether in a gaseous,
liquid or solid state, and one or more of the following, that is to say,
hydrogen sulphide, nitrogen, helium, carbon dioxide and water,
and includes
any substance referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) that has been returned
to a natural reservoir, but does not include coal or oil shale or any
substance prescribed to be a mineral for the purposes of the Mining Act 1992
.
"petroleum deposit" means any naturally occurring accumulation of petroleum on
or below the surface of the earth.
"petroleum title" means an exploration licence, assessment lease, production
lease or special prospecting authority in force under this Act.
"prospect" means to carry out works on, or to remove samples from, land for
the purpose of testing the quality and quantity of petroleum in the land and
the potential to recover petroleum from the land, but does not include any
activity declared by the regulations not to constitute prospecting.
"prospecting operations" means operations carried out in the course of
prospecting.
"public authority" means a public authority constituted by or under an Act,
and includes--
(b) a statutory body
representing the Crown, a State owned corporation within the meaning of the
State Owned Corporations Act 1989 and a subsidiary (within the meaning of
that Act), and
"well" means a hole made by drilling in connection with exploration for
petroleum or operations for the recovery of petroleum, but does not include a
seismic shot hole.
"well-head" , of petroleum, has the meaning specified by the regulations.
(2) A reference in this Act
to land comprised in a petroleum title or in any instrument includes, where
the title or instrument is a lease, a reference to land demised by the lease.
