PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2000
Table of Provisions
PART 1--Preliminary
Division 1--Formal
Division 2--Objects of Act
Division 3--Interpretation
Division 4--Rights of the Crown
PART 2--Administration
Division 1--The Minister
- 6 Administration
- 6A Interaction with other legislation
- 7 Delegation
Division 2--Authorised officers
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
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
Division 5--Reservoir access
Division 6--Grant, resumption etc of land
- 80 Grant, resumption etc of Crown and pastoral land
Division 7--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
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 15--Safety net
PART 12--Environment protection
Division 1--Objects
Division 2--Environmental prerequisites
Division 3--Environmental impact report and classification of regulated activities
Division 4--Statements of environmental objectives
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