PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 877 Exclusion from area of land in area of coal mining lease or oil shale mining lease

PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 877

877 Exclusion from area of land in area of coal mining lease or oil shale mining lease

(1) This section applies to land if it—

(a) is within any transitional notional sub-block of a converted ATP; and

(b) was, when the relevant 1923 Act ATP was granted, in the area of a coal or oil shale mining lease, whether or not the land was in the area of the 1923 Act ATP.

(2) Despite section 98, the land—

(a) does not form part of the area of the converted ATP; and

(b) is taken to be excluded land for the converted ATP.