PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 33C

PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 33C

33C .         Effect of withdrawal or lapse of s. 30 application

                If —

            (a)         2 or more applications have been made under section 30 for the grant of a permit in respect of the same block or blocks; and

            (b)         one or more, but not all, of the applications are withdrawn or have lapsed,

                the following paragraphs have effect —

            (c)         the withdrawn or lapsed applications are taken not to have been made;

            (d)         if the Minister had informed the applicant or one of the applicants whose application had been withdrawn or had lapsed to the effect that the Minister was prepared to grant to that applicant a permit in respect of the block or blocks to which the application related — the Minister is taken not to have informed the applicant or applicants to that effect;

            (e)         if the applicant or one of the applicants whose application had been withdrawn had requested the Minister under section 32(3) to grant a permit to the applicant concerned — the request is taken not to have been made;

            (f)         if the Minister had refused to grant a permit to the remaining applicant or to any of the remaining applicants — the refusal or refusals are taken not to have occurred.

        [Section 33C inserted: No. 42 of 2010 s. 9.]