Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) (MANAGEMENT OF WELL OPERATIONS) REGULATIONS 2006 - REG 12

12 .         Decision on well operations management plan

        (1)         Within 30 days after a titleholder gives a well operations management plan to the Minister, the Minister must —

            (a)         accept the well operations management plan, or one or more parts of the well operations management plan;

            (b)         reject the well operations management plan; or

            (c)         notify the titleholder, in writing, that the Minister is unable to make a decision without further assessment of the well operations management plan.

        (2)         If the Minister is unable to make a decision, the Minister must —

            (a)         notify the titleholder, in writing, that the Minister is unable to make a decision without further assessment of the well operations management plan; and

            (b)         include in the notification —

                  (i)         a proposed timetable for assessment of the well operations management plan that gives the titleholder a reasonable opportunity to modify and resubmit the well operations management plan; and

                  (ii)         a description of any further information the Minister may require to be able to assess the well operations management plan.

        (3)         If a well operations management plan is resubmitted under subregulation (2)(b)(i), or further information is provided under subregulation (2)(b)(ii), the Minister must, as soon as practicable, further assess the well operations management plan and either —

            (a)         accept the well operations management plan, or one or more parts of the well operations management plan; or

            (b)         reject the well operations management plan.

        (4)         The Minister may accept a well operations management plan, or one or more parts of the well operations management plan, subject to any conditions decided by the Minister.

        (5)         The acceptance of one or more parts of a well operations management plan is taken to be the rejection of any other parts of the well operations management plan that are not accepted by the Minister.

        (6)         The Minister must notify the titleholder, in writing, of the following matters as soon as practicable after making a decision —

            (a)         the terms of the decision;

            (b)         if the decision is to reject, or accept one or more parts of, the well operations management plan, the reasons for the decision;

            (c)         if the decision is to accept the well operations management plan, or one or more parts of the well operations management plan, subject to a condition —

                  (i)         the terms of the condition; and

                  (ii)         the reason for making the acceptance subject to the condition;

            (d)         the terms of regulation 14.