New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 69H

69H Arbitration process--mediation before arbitration hearing

(1) As soon as practicable after having been appointed, an arbitrator--

(a) must fix a time and place for conducting a mediation of the question of access to the land concerned, and

(b) must cause notice of his or her appointment, and of the time and place fixed for conducting the mediation, to be given to the holder of the prospecting title and to each landholder.

(2) The arbitrator may, by a further notice served on the holder of the prospecting title and on each landholder, vary the time or place fixed for conducting the mediation.

(3) The arbitrator must, at the time and place fixed under this section, conduct a mediation of the question of access to the land concerned.