PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 307 Applications relating to exploration tenement and mining lease not held by same person

PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 307

307 Applications relating to exploration tenement and mining lease not held by same person

(1) This section applies if a person to whom this division applies wishes to make an application to which this division applies—

(a) for land in the area of each of the following—

(i) the coal or oil shale exploration tenement (the
"exploration tenement part" );

(ii) a coal or oil shale mining lease (the
"mining lease part" ); and

(b) the exploration tenement and the mining lease are not held by the same person.

Note—

If the coal or oil shale exploration tenement and the coal or oil shale mining lease are held by the same person, see section 344 (3) .

(2) The person may make separate ATP-related applications for the exploration tenement part and the mining lease part.

(3) A separate application for the exploration tenement part, or the part of an application that relates to the exploration tenement part, must be decided under this division.

(4) A separate application for the mining lease part, or the part of an application that relates to the mining lease part, must be decided under part 3 .