PETROLEUM ACT 1998 - SECT 252 Regulations

PETROLEUM ACT 1998 - SECT 252

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

        (a)     determining the dimensions, boundaries, form, position and extent of an authority area; and

        (b)     determining the requirements to be complied with by people who wish to acquire authorities; and

        (c)     prescribing conditions that are to apply to a particular type of authority or to authorities generally; and

        (d)     prescribing the fees payable for authorities and gathering lines, and the fees for applications, the processing of applications, renewals, authority variations and extensions, authority condition variations and suspensions, surveys, inspections by inspectors, technical and other assessments undertaken by the Department or its agents, exemptions, registrations in the petroleum register, inspection of the petroleum register and access to released information; and

        (e)     prescribing annual fees payable by the holders of authorities; and

        (f)     prescribing the rent that is payable by the holders of authorities for occupying Crown land; and

        (g)     requiring the holders of authorities to submit specified information to the Minister and to keep specified information, records and samples; and

        (h)     the information to be contained in work programs, development plans, unit developments, operation plans, and other plans, manuals and reports required of authority holders; and

              (i)     requirements for pecuniary interests statements; and

        (j)     the petroleum register and the documents to be registered; and

        (k)     regulating inquiries and investigations conducted into matters under this Act; and

        (l)     requirements for gathering lines; and

        (m)     the prevention of nuisances in or about authority land and for cleaning and keeping clean authority land, and without limiting this head of power, the prevention of the pollution of the seashore or the sea or inland waters from petroleum operations; and

S. 252(1)(n) amended by No. 55/2010 s. 65(1).

        (n)     prescribing precautions and measures for the treatment of water underground or at the surface and for the prevention of waste of petroleum; and

        (o)     regulating the separation, storage, transportation and utilisation of anything produced under an authority; and

        (p)     regulating the production and treatment of petroleum under an authority; and

        (q)     ensuring that precautions will be taken against flooding, and prescribing the methods to be adopted if wells are abandoned; and

S. 252(1)(r) amended by No. 55/2010 s. 65(2).

        (r)     ensuring that well making, geophysical surveys, geochemical surveys and other petroleum operations are carried out with due diligence and by satisfactory methods;

        (s)     regulating the production testing of wells, including flaring; and

        (t)     prescribing the equipment, materials and casings that are to be used in petroleum operations under this Act; and

        (u)     regulating unit agreements; and

              (v)     regulating the underground storage of petroleum including prescribing petroleum products that may be stored; and

S. 252(1)(w) amended by No. 20/2020 s. 25(1).

        (w)     generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act; and

S. 252(1)(wa) inserted by No. 20/2020 s. 25(2).

        (wa)     provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the Petroleum Legislation Amendment Act 2020 , including but not limited to provisions relating to new work programs and applications pending under this Act immediately before the commencement of that Act.

    (2)     The regulations—

        (a)     may be of general or of specially limited application; and

        (b)     may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and

        (c)     may require a matter affected by the regulations to be—

              (i)     in accordance with a specified standard or specified requirement; or

              (ii)     approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or a specified class of person; or

              (iii)     as specified in both subparagraphs (i) and (ii); and

        (d)     may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document whether—

              (i)     wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or

              (ii)     as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time; and

        (e)     may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or a specified class of person; and

S. 252(2)(f) amended by No. 55/2010 s. 65(3).

        (f)     may provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of people or things from any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions, and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified; and

        (g)     may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations; and

        (h)     may be expressed as requiring the achievement of a specified object in relation to any particular subject matter.

Part 17—Consequential, savings and transitional provisions

Pt 17 Div. 1 (Heading) inserted by No. 20/2020 s. 26.

Division 1—Transitional provisions—Repeal of Petroleum Act 1958