Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 780K

  (1)   If:

  (a)   before 1   January 2016:

  (i)   a petroleum exploration permit was purportedly renewed under this Act; or

  (ii)   a petroleum retention lease was purportedly renewed under this Act; or

  (iii)   a fixed - term petroleum production licence was purportedly renewed under this Act; and

  (b)   the purported renewal would, apart from this subsection, be invalid because consent was not given under subsection   359(3) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ;

the purported renewal is as valid and effective, and is taken always to have been as valid and effective, as it would have been if:

  (c)   consent had been given under that subsection; and

  (d)   that consent had not been subject to any conditions.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   before 1   January 2016:

  (i)   the term of a petroleum exploration permit was purportedly extended under this Act; or

  (ii)   the term of a petroleum retention lease was purportedly extended under this Act; and

  (b)   the purported extension would, apart from this subsection, be invalid because consent was not given under subsection   359(3) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ;

the purported extension is as valid and effective, and is taken always to have been as valid and effective, as it would have been if:

  (c)   consent had been given under that subsection; and

  (d)   that consent had not been subject to any conditions.