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PETROLEUM ACT 1998 - SECT 140 Petroleum operations on water authority land

PETROLEUM ACT 1998 - SECT 140

Petroleum operations on water authority land

S. 140(1) substituted by No. 17/2012 s. 93.

    (1)     In this section, "water authority" means an Authority within the meaning of the Water Act 1989 that has a water district or a sewerage district under that Act.

    (2)     A person must not carry out any petroleum operation on any land that is owned, vested in or managed or controlled by a water authority without the written consent of the water authority.

Penalty:     240 penalty units.

    (3)     A person must not carry out any petroleum operation that involves work at a depth of more than 0·75 metres below any land that is within 100 metres of—

        (a)     a waterway that is owned by, vested in or managed or controlled by a water authority; or

        (b)     any main drains, sewers, aqueducts, channels or pipelines of a water authority

without the written consent of the water authority.

Penalty:     240 penalty units.