New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 45D

45D Provisions relating to applications for low-impact prospecting titles

(1) A low-impact prospecting title may not be granted unless notice of the application for the title has been served on all:

(a) registered native title bodies corporate, and

(b) registered native title claimants, and

(c) representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies,

in relation to any of the land that will be affected by the proposed prospecting operations to be authorised by the prospecting title.

(2) The notice must contain a map or other description of the land over which the prospecting title is sought and a description of the kind of prospecting operations that may be authorised by the prospecting title.

(3) An applicant may request the Minister to grant a low-impact prospecting title either at the time the application for a prospecting title is made or at any later time before the grant of the prospecting title.

(4) The regulations may make other provision for or with respect to the making and grant of applications for low-impact prospecting titles.