PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 102
PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 102
102 . Removal of property etc. by Minister
Where a permit,
drilling reservation or licence has been wholly determined, partly determined,
wholly cancelled or partly cancelled, or has expired, or a lease has been
wholly determined, partly determined or wholly cancelled or has expired, and a
direction under section 101 has not been complied with, or an arrangement
under that section has not been carried out, in relation to the relinquished
area —
(a) the
Minister may do all or any of the things required by the direction or
arrangement to be done; and
(b) if
any property brought into that area by any person engaged or concerned in the
operations authorised by the permit, drilling reservation, lease or licence
has not been removed in accordance with the direction or arrangement, the
Minister may, by instrument published in the Gazette , direct that the owner
or owners of that property shall remove it from that area, or dispose of it to
the satisfaction of the Minister, within the period specified in the
instrument and shall serve a copy of the instrument on each person whom he
believes to be an owner of that property or any part of that property.
[Section 102 amended: No. 12 of 1990 s. 83; No. 78
of 1990 s. 7.]
[ 103, 104. Deleted: No. 42 of 2010 s. 47.]