Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS - MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 1981 No. 79, 1981 - SECT 12

12. Section 63 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section
(2) the following sub-sections:



"(2A) Where, before the commencement of this Act, an exploration permit under
the Principal Act was surrendered, cancelled or determined as to an area -

   (a)  that, at the time of the surrender, cancellation or determination,
        was, or was included in, a location under the Principal Act; and

   (b)  part only of which is within an adjacent area (within the meaning of
        the Principal Act, as amended by this Act), each block constituted as
        provided by section 17 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act
        that is comprised in the part of that area that is referred to in
        paragraph (b) shall -

   (c)  be deemed to be a block to which sub-section 23 (1) of the Principal
        Act as amended by this Act applies; and

   (d)  if, in the opinion of the Designated Authority, there is petroleum in
        that part of that area, be deemed to be a block to which sub-section
        47 (1) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act applies.



"(2B) If, in respect of a subsisting permit or subsisting pipeline licence,
within the meaning of Schedule 4, being a permit or licence in respect of an
area or route that is partly within a State jurisdiction, within the meaning
of that Schedule, a circumstance referred to in paragraph 105 (1) (a), (b),
(c) or (d) of the Principal Act existed immediately before the commencement of
this Act, section 105 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act applies in
relation to the new permit or new pipeline licence, within the meaning of that
Schedule, under the Principal Act as so amended arising out of that subsisting
permit or subsisting pipeline licence as if the grounds upon which, under
sub-section (1) of that section, the new permit or new pipeline licence may be
cancelled, in whole or in part, included the existence, immediately before the
commencement of this Act, of those circumstances in relation to that
subsisting permit or subsisting pipeline licence.".