PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 33B
PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 33B
33B . Application continued after withdrawal of joint applicant
If —
(a) a
permit application was a joint application; and
(b) all
of the joint applicants, by written notice served on the Minister, inform the
Minister that one or more, but not all, of them, as specified in the notice,
withdraw from the application,
the following
paragraphs have effect —
(c) the
application continues in force as if it had been made by the remaining
applicant or applicants;
(d) if
the Minister had informed the joint applicants to the effect that the Minister
was prepared to grant to the applicants a permit in respect of the block or
blocks to which the application relates, the Minister is taken not to have
informed the applicants to that effect.
[Section 33B inserted: No. 42 of 2010 s. 9.]