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PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2000

Table of Provisions

PART 1--Preliminary

Division 1--Formal

  • 1 Short title

Division 2--Objects of Act

  • 3 Objects

Division 3--Interpretation

  • 4 Interpretation

Division 4--Rights of the Crown

  • 5 Rights of the Crown

PART 2--Administration

Division 1--The Minister

  • 6 Administration
  • 6A Interaction with other legislation
  • 7 Delegation

Division 2--Authorised officers

PART 3--Licensing regulated activities

Division 1--Requirement for licence

Division 1A--Hydraulic Fracturing

  • 11A Moratorium on hydraulic fracturing

Division 2--Grant of licence

Division 3--Preliminary survey licence

PART 4--Exploration

Division 1--Competitive tender regions

Division 2--Speculative survey

  • 17 Speculative survey licence
  • 18 Area of speculative survey licence
  • 19 Term of speculative survey licence
  • 20 Consultation preceding grant or renewal of speculative survey licence

Division 3--Exploration licences

PART 5--Retention

PART 6--Production

  • 34 Production licences
  • 35 Grant of production licence
  • 36 Power to require holder of exploration licence or retention licence to apply for production licence
  • 37 Area of production licence
  • 38 Work program to be carried out by production licensee
  • 39 Requirement to proceed with production
  • 40 Term of production licence
  • 41 Cancellation or conversion of production licence where commercial operations in abeyance
  • 42 Unitisation of production

PART 7--Royalty

PART 8--Transmission pipelines

Division 1--Pipeline licence

Division 2--Access to pipeline

  • 49 Ministerial power to require access to pipeline

Division 3--Special provisions about pipelines

PART 9--Associated activities

PART 9A--Special facilities

PART 10--Entry to and use of land

  • 60 Right of entry to land
  • 61 Notice of entry on land
  • 62 Disputed entry
  • 63 Right to compensation
  • 64 Right to require acquisition of land

PART 11--General provisions about licences

Division 1--General provision about applications

Division 2--Extent of licence exclusivity

  • 67 Application of Division
  • 68 Extent to which same area may be subject to different licences
  • 69 Grant of compatible licence to area already under licence
  • 70 Interrelationship between rights of licensees under compatible licences
  • 71 Excision of licence areas

Division 3--Licence conditions

Division 4--Annual fees

  • 78 Annual fees

Division 5--Reservoir access

Division 6--Grant, resumption etc of land

  • 80 Grant, resumption etc of Crown and pastoral land

Division 7--Multiple licensees

  • 81 Multiple licensees

Division 8--Consolidation and division of licence areas etc

Division 9--Record keeping and reporting requirements

  • 84 Records to be kept by licensee
  • 85 Reporting of certain incidents
  • 86 Information to be provided by licensee

Division 9A--Change in control of holder of licence

Division 10--General requirements for operations

  • 86A Fitness-for-purpose assessment
  • 87 Activities to be carried out with due care and in accordance with good industry practice

Division 11--Minister's power to carry out work

  • 88 Ministerial direction

Division 12--Surrender, suspension or cancellation of licence

  • 89 Surrender
  • 90 Suspension of licence by agreement
  • 91 Disciplinary power to suspend or cancel licence

Division 13--Notice of grant etc of licence

  • 92 Notice to be published in Gazette

Division 14--Interference with regulated activities

Division 15--Safety net

  • 94 Safety net

PART 12--Environment protection

Division 1--Objects

  • 95 Objects

Division 2--Environmental prerequisites

Division 3--Environmental impact report and classification of regulated activities

Division 4--Statements of environmental objectives

Division 5--The environmental register

Division 6--General provisions for environmental protection

  • 108 Power to direct licensee to take action to prevent or minimise environmental damage
  • 109 Power to direct rehabilitation of land
  • 110 Application for review of environmental direction
  • 111 Liability for damage caused by authorised activities

PART 13--Registrable dealings

Division 1--Registrable dealings

  • 112 Registrable dealings
  • 113 Requirement for approval and registration of registrable dealings
  • 114 Application for approval

Division 2--The public register

  • 115 Public register
  • 116 Public register to be available for inspection

Division 3--The commercial register

  • 117 Commercial register
  • 118 Authority to search register

PART 14--Investigation and enforcement

  • 119 Authorised investigations
  • 120 Powers of entry and inspection
  • 121 Power to gather information
  • 122 Production of records
  • 123 Publication of results of investigation

PART 15--Reconsideration and reviews

Division 1--Application of this Part

  • 124 Decisions etc subject to review

Division 2--Reconsideration

  • 125 Application for reconsideration
  • 126 Constitution of advisory committee
  • 127 Minister's decision on application for reconsideration

Division 3--Reviews

PART 16--Miscellaneous

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