New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 45C

45C Authority conferred by low-impact prospecting title

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, determine the kind of prospecting operations that may be authorised by a low-impact prospecting title, being operations that the Minister is satisfied are unlikely to have a significant impact on the land over which the title may be granted. Different kinds of operations may be determined for exploration licences and for special prospecting authorities.

(2) The conditions to which a low-impact prospecting title is subject are to limit the prospecting operations authorised by the title to all or some of the prospecting operations of the kind determined by the Minister under this section.

(3) A change in the prospecting operations determined by the Minister under this section does not affect a low-impact prospecting title that is in force at the time the change is made.