(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 .