PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 560 Obligation to remove equipment and improvements

PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 560

560 Obligation to remove equipment and improvements

(1) This section applies for equipment or improvements in the area of a petroleum authority or on access land for the authority that are being, or have been, used for an authorised activity for the authority.

(2) However, this section does not apply for—

(a) a petroleum well, pipeline, water injection bore, water observation bore or water supply bore; or

Notes—

1 For petroleum wells, water injection bores, water observation bores and water supply bores, see chapter 2 , part 10 .

2 For pipelines, see sections 539 and 559 .

(b) equipment or improvements on land that, under section 101 , ceases to be in the area of an authority to prospect.

(3) The authority holder must, before the removal day, remove the equipment or improvements from the land, unless the owner of the land otherwise agrees.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—1,000 penalty units.

Note—

If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 814A , to have also committed the offence.

(4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (3) applies even if the equipment or improvements are not owned by the holder.

Note—

For ownership of the equipment or improvements, see section 542 .

(5) In this section—


"equipment" includes machinery and plant.


"removal day" means the later of the following days—

(a) the earlier of the following—

(i) the day the authority ends;

(ii) the day the land ceases to be in the area of the authority;

(b) if, before the day provided for under paragraph (a) , the Minister fixes a day—that day;

(c) if, before a day fixed under paragraph (b) , the Minister fixes a later day—that day.