(1) For paragraph 150B (2) (c) of the Act, the Designated Authority may:

(a)

make documentary information publicly known; or

(b)

make documentary information available to a person (other than a Minister of the Commonwealth, of a State or of the Northern Territory);

in accordance with the requirements in this regulation.

(2)

It is a requirement that the documentary information:

(a)

is contained in an applicable document; and

(b)

is derivative information; and

(c)

is not protected confidential information; and

(d)

relates to the sea-bed or subsoil, or to petroleum, in a block.

(3)

It is a requirement that the Designated Authority was given the applicable document at least 5 years before making the information publicly known.

(4)

For subregulation (3):

(a)

cores and cuttings, well data, logs, sample descriptions and other documents, relating to the drilling of a well, are taken to have been given to the Designated Authority not later than 1 month after the drilling of the well was, in the Designated Authority's opinion, substantially completed; and

(b)

geophysical or geochemical data relating to geophysical or geochemical surveys are taken to have been given to the Designated Authority not later than 1 year after the geophysical or geochemical field work was, in the Designated Authority's opinion, substantially completed; and

(c)

information submitted must, to the satisfaction of the Designated Authority, be sufficient to obtain an understanding of all activities undertaken and all processing and interpretations made as well as a full understanding of data and information collected.

Note 1
Data may be submitted earlier than the times mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). However, the times are intended to ensure that the period of confidentiality of derivative data is not extended by the delaying of data submission.
Note 2
Schedule 1 sets out time frames for giving other information to the Designated Authority.

(5)

For subsection 150G (2) of the Act:

(a)

the Designated Authority may require a person to pay a fee determined by the Designated Authority before the documentary information is made available to the person; and

(b)

if a person is required to pay a fee — the Designated Authority must not make the documentary information available to the person unless the fee has been paid.