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PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 19

PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 19

19 .         Compensation for further damage

                If while in occupation of any land comprised in a permit, drilling reservation, lease or licence the permittee, holder of the drilling reservation, lessee or licensee, as the case requires, causes any damage to the surface of any private land comprised within the boundaries of the land the subject of the permit, drilling reservation, lease or licence belonging either to the same or any other owner, or to any improvement on any such private land, not being damage already assessed under the provisions of this Part, the owner and occupier of the private land or improvement shall severally be entitled to compensation for the damage sustained by each of them, and the amount of such compensation shall be ascertained in accordance with the provisions of section 17.

        [Section 19 amended: No. 12 of 1990 s. 14; No. 78 of 1990 s. 7.]