Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PETROLEUM (AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA ZONE OF COOPERATION) (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1990 No. 37, 1990 - SECT 23

23. After section 30 of the Principal Act, the following section is inserted:
Renewal of permit in respect of blocks constituted by graticular sections
wholly or partly in Area A of the Zone of Cooperation

"30A. (1) This section applies to any permit that was, immediately before the
commencement of this section, in force in respect of blocks all or a number of
which were blocks constituted by graticular sections wholly or partly in Area
A of the Zone of Cooperation.

"(2) Where, as a result of the amendments of section 5A made by the
PETROLEUM (AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA ZONE OF COOPERATION) (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1990
No. 37, 1990 Act 1990 (which removed Area A from the adjacent areas) and of
the operation of subsection 17 (2):

   (a)  a block specified in the permit has ceased to exist; or

   (b)  the boundaries of a block specified in the permit have changed; the
        permit is taken not to specify any block referred to in paragraph (a),
        to specify each block referred to in paragraph (b) as that block
        exists immediately after the commencement of the amendments, and to
        specify each block unaffected by the amendments.

"(3) Where:

   (a)  before the commencement of this section, an application had been made
        under section 30 for the renewal of a permit; and

   (b)  at that commencement, no decision has been taken to renew, or to
        refuse to renew, the permit; the application is taken to specify the
        blocks which, as a result of the operation of subsection (2),
        constitute the permit area.

"(4) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, there was in
force under section 103A an instrument of suspension in respect of a permit,
then, on the commencement of this section:

   (a)  the instrument is by force of this section revoked; and

   (b)  the permittee is taken to have made an application under section 30
        for the renewal by the Joint Authority of the permit in respect of the
        blocks which, as a result of the operation of subsection (2),
        constitute the permit area.

"(5) Section 31 does not apply to or in relation to an application:

   (a)  that is referred to in subsection (3); or

   (b)  that a permittee is taken to have made under subsection (4).".