PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 117
PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 117
117 . Interference with other rights etc.
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 shall carry on those operations in a manner that does not
interfere with —
(a) the
surface of any land or any improvements thereon; or
(b) the
conservation of the resources of the soil or the Earth’s crust; or
(c) any
operations of another person being lawfully carried on by way of exploration
for, recovery of or conveyance of a mineral, whether petroleum or not, or
geothermal energy resources or geothermal energy, or by way of construction or
operation of a pipeline; or
(d)
navigation; or
(e)
fishing; or
(f) the
conservation of the resources of the sea and the seabed,
to a greater extent
than is necessary for the reasonable exercise of the rights and performance of
the duties of that first-mentioned person.
Penalty: a fine of $10 000.
[Section 117 amended: No. 12 of 1990 s. 94; No. 78
of 1990 s. 7; No. 35 of 2007 s. 72; No. 42 of 2010 s. 54 and 62(15).]