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PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 115

PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 115

115 .         Records etc. to be kept

        (1)         The Minister may, by instrument in writing served on a person carrying on operations in the State under a permit, drilling reservation, lease, licence, special prospecting authority, access authority or instrument of consent under section 116, direct that person to do any one or more of the following things —

            (a)         to keep such accounts, records and other documents in connection with those operations as are specified in the instrument;

            (b)         to collect and retain such cores, cuttings and samples in connection with those operations as are so specified;

            (c)         to furnish to the Minister, or to such person as is so specified, in the manner so specified, such reports, returns, other documents, cores, cuttings and samples in connection with those operations as are so specified.

        (2)         A person to whom a direction is given under subsection (1) shall comply with the direction.

        Penalty for an offence under subsection (2): a fine of $10 000.

        [Section 115 amended: No. 12 of 1990 s. 93; No. 78 of 1990 s. 7; No. 28 of 1994 s. 52; No. 42 of 2010 s. 62(12).]