PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 7A
PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 7A
7A—Certain portions of blocks to be blocks
(1) Where the area in
respect of which a permit, lease, licence or prescribed instrument is in force
includes one or more portions of a block constituted as provided by
section 16, then, for the purposes of this Part—
(a) the
area of that portion or those portions constitutes a block; and
(b) the
area of the remaining portion or portions of the firstmentioned block (but not
including any part of that area in respect of which a permit, lease, licence
or prescribed instrument is in force) constitutes a block.
(2) Where a permit,
lease, licence or prescribed instrument ceases to be in force in respect of an
area that constitutes a block as provided by subsection (1)(a), the
Minister may, by instrument in writing, if the Minister considers it desirable
to do so, determine that that block shall be amalgamated with another block or
blocks, being a block or blocks—
(a)
constituted as provided by this section; and
(b)
forming part of the graticular section of which that firstmentioned block
forms part; and
(c) in
respect of which a permit, lease or licence is in force.
(3) Where such a
determination is made, then, for the purposes of this Part—
(a) the
blocks the subject of the determination cease to constitute blocks and the
areas of those blocks together constitute a block; and
(b) the
block constituted by reason of the determination is, subject to this Part, for
the remainder of the term of the permit, lease or licence concerned, a block
in respect of which the permit, lease or licence is in force.
(4) The Minister shall
not make a determination under subsection (2) except with the consent of
the permittee, lessee or licensee concerned.
(5) In this
section—
"prescribed instrument" means a special prospecting authority, an
access authority and any other instrument prescribed by regulation.