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PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 550 Public release of required information

PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 550

Public release of required information

550 Public release of required information

(1) The mere fact of the existence of a petroleum tenure is taken to be an authorisation from its holder to the chief executive to do the following, after the end of any confidentiality period prescribed under a regulation—
(a) publish, in the way prescribed under a regulation, required information for the tenure for public use, including, for example, to support petroleum exploration, production and development;
(b) on payment of a fee prescribed under a regulation, make it available to any person.
(2) Any confidentiality period prescribed under subsection (1) ceases if the information is about an authorised activity carried out solely in an area that is no longer in the area of the petroleum tenure.
Example—
The required information is a well completion report about a well drilled on particular land in the area of an authority to prospect. Subsection (1) ceases to apply if all of that land is relinquished under the relinquishment condition.
(3) The authorisation is not affected by the ending of the tenure.