PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 843
Request to applicant about application
PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 843
Request to applicant about application
843 Request to applicant about application
(1) For an application under this
Act, the relevant person for the application may, by notice, require the
applicant to do all or any of the following within a stated reasonable
period—
(a) complete or correct the application if it appears to the
relevant person to be incorrect, incomplete or defective;
(b) give the
relevant person or another stated officer of the department additional
information about, or relevant to, the application;
Examples—
1 The
application is for a petroleum lease. The chief executive may require
additional information about a document given with the application, for
example, a document prepared by an appropriately qualified person,
independently verifying reserve data given in the proposed development plan
for the lease.
2 The application is for a potential commercial area. The
chief executive may require additional information about drilling and
production test results.
(c) give the relevant person or another stated
officer of the department an independent report by an appropriately qualified
person, or a statement or statutory declaration, verifying all or any of the
following—
(i) any information included in the application;
(ii) any
additional information required under paragraph (b) ;
(iii) if the
application is for a petroleum tenure—that the applicant meets the relevant
capability criteria under chapter 2 .
(2) For subsection (1) (b) , if the
application is for a petroleum authority, a required document may include a
survey or resurvey of the area of the proposed authority carried out by a
person who is a cadastral surveyor under the Surveyors Act 2003.
(3) For
subsection (1) (c) , the notice may require the statement or statutory
declaration—
(a) to be made by an appropriately qualified independent person
or by the applicant; and
(b) if the applicant is a corporation—to be made
for the applicant by an executive officer of the applicant.
(4) The giving of
a statement for subsection (1) (c) does not prevent the relevant person from
also requiring a statutory declaration for the subsection.
(5) The applicant
must bear any costs incurred in complying with the notice.
(6) The relevant
person may extend the period for complying with the notice.
(7) In this
section—
"application" does not include—
(a) an application to a court or tribunal;
or
(b) an internal review application under chapter 12 , part 1 .
"information" includes a document.
"relevant person" , for an application under this Act, means—
(a) the chief
inspector, if the application is made under—
