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PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 169 Minister’s power to decide excluded land

PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 169

Minister’s power to decide excluded land

169 Minister’s power to decide excluded land

(1) The Minister may decide excluded land for a petroleum lease or proposed petroleum lease.
(2) However, the power under subsection (1) may be exercised only when the Minister is deciding whether to—
(a) grant or renew the lease; or
(b) approve any later development plan for the lease.
(3) However, excluded land—
(a) must be within any sub-block that the lease states is included in the area of the lease; and
(b) can not be a whole sub-block.
(4) For subsection (3) (a) , if the register—
(a) states that the lease’s area includes land within a block; but
(b) does not include or exclude any particular sub-block within that block;
the reference to the block in the register is a reference to all sub-blocks within the block, other than any sub-block that is completely within the area of another petroleum tenure or a 1923 Act petroleum tenure.
(5) Excluded land may be described in a way the Minister considers appropriate, including, for example, by area or by reference to a stated type of land.
(6) Land ceases to be excluded land for a petroleum lease if, for any reason, the sub-block in which the land is located ceases to be in the area of the lease.