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PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 80, 1980 - SECT 63

Transitional provisions
63. (1) A permit or licence granted by a Designated Authority under the
Principal Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act in
respect of an area that is wholly within an adjacent area within the meaning
of the Principal Act as amended by this Act continues in force and is subject
to the Principal Act as amended by this Act as if granted under the Principal
Act as so amended by the Joint Authority in respect of that adjacent area.

(2) The Scheme agreed on between the Governments of the Commonwealth, the
States and the Northern Territory with respect to certain transitional
arrangements, being the scheme set out in Schedule 4, so far as that scheme
relates to the operation of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, has the
force of law by virtue of this section.

(3) The amendments made to section 78 of the Principal Act by this Act do not
affect a transfer of a permit, licence, pipeline licence or access authority
approved by the Designated Authority before the commencement of this Act and
the provisions of section 78 of the Principal Act continue to apply in
relation to an application for approval lodged with the Designated Authority
before the commencement of this Act.

(4) The amendments made to section 81 of the Principal Act by this Act do not
affect an instrument approved by the Designated Authority before the
commencement of this Act and the provisions of section 81 of the Principal Act
continue to apply in relation to an application with approval of an instrument
lodged with the Designated Authority before the commencement of this Act.

(5) Where a function of the Designated Authority under the Principal Act has
become a function of the Joint Authority under the Principal Act as amended by
this Act, anything done before the commencement of this Act in relation to the
performance of that function in a particular case as a function of the
Designated Authority shall, for the purpose of the performance of the function
in that case by the Joint Authority, be deemed to have been done in relation
to the function as a function of the Joint Authority.

(6) A direction under a provision of the Principal Act in force immediately
before the commencement of this Act continues in force as if made under that
provision of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act.

(7) Where, before the commencement of this Act, the Designated Authority had,
under sub-section 103 (1) of the Principal Act, suspended, or exempted the
permittee from compliance with, any of the conditions to which a permit was
subject, and the permit continues in force after that commencement (whether or
not the suspension or exemption so continues), the Joint Authority may, at any
time before the permit ceases to be in force, by instrument in writing served
on the permittee, extend the term of the permit by a period not exceeding the
period of the suspension or exemption.

(8) The provisions of section 128 of the Principal Act continue to have effect
in relation to payments made to a State before the commencement of this Act
and for that purpose payments made to a State as interim payments on account
of royalty shall be deemed to have been payments of royalty. 


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