Queensland Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM ACT 1923 - SECT 76I

76I How main purposes are achieved

(1) The main purposes of this part are achieved, in this part, the 2004 Act , chapter 3 or the Mineral Resources Act , chapter 8 , by—

(a) providing for processes to decide the priority of overlapping lease applications and coal or oil shale mining tenement applications and potential applications; and

(b) facilitating the obtaining of a lease over land in the area of a coal or oil shale mining lease; and

(c) imposing additional requirements for deciding the overlapping applications; and

(d) imposing restrictions on the authorised activities for particular 1923 Act petroleum tenures; and

(e) imposing additional—

(i) requirements relating to development plans for petroleum exploration or production under a lease; and

(ii) conditions on authorities to prospect and leases; and

(f) granting the following the right to apply for a lease—

(i) particular coal or oil shale mining tenement holders;

(ii) others who apply jointly with the holders.

(2) The following are also relevant to the achievement of the purposes—

(a) the definition of
"petroleum" in section 2 —

(b) the 2004 Act , sections 800 (2) and 802 (1) (c) ;

(c) the 2004 Act , chapter 2 , part 8 ;

(d) the 2004 Act , chapter 9 ;

(e) the Mineral Resources Act , sections 3A and 6 , chapter 8 and chapter 15 , part 2 , division 6 .