Queensland Numbered Acts

MINING AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2007 No. 46 - SECT 155

After section 80C--

insert--

'(1) Despite section 80C, the chief executive may enter into an arrangement with another department allowing it to carry out a search of, take extracts from or obtain a copy of, particulars recorded in the petroleum register, without payment of the fees prescribed under section 80C.

'(2) However, the chief executive may enter into an arrangement under subsection (1) only if the chief executive is reasonably satisfied the information obtained from the copy will not be--

(a) used for a commercial purpose, including, for example, the marketing or sale of the information or other information; or

(b) included in another database of information, in any form, other than with chief executive's approval.

'(1) The chief executive may enter into an agreement to supply statistical data derived from instruments or information kept in the petroleum register.

'(2) If the chief executive supplies statistical data under subsection (1)--

(a) the fees and charges applying for the supply of the data are the fees and charges provided for in the agreement; and

(b) without limiting paragraph (a), the agreement may also state--

(i) how the fees and charges are to be calculated; and

(ii) how payment of the fees and charges is to be made.

'(3) Without limiting subsection (1), an agreement for the supply of statistical data may limit the use to which the data supplied may be put.

'(4) An agreement for the supply of statistical data must include--

(a) a provision allowing the chief executive to exclude particulars from data supplied under the agreement, if the chief executive is satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that inclusion of the particulars may result in the particulars being inappropriately disclosed or used; and

(b) a provision allowing the chief executive to prohibit disclosure, or to limit distribution or use, of data supplied under the agreement.

'(5) An agreement under this section must not provide for the obtaining of information or anything else that may be obtained under section 80C.

'(6) The chief executive must exclude petroleum authority particulars and personal information from data supplied under the agreement.

'(7) Subsection (6) applies despite anything in the agreement.

'(8) In this section--

petroleum authority particulars means particulars from any instrument or information kept by the chief executive that may allow a person to identify a 1923 Act petroleum tenure to which the instrument or information relates.

personal information means a particular from any instrument or information kept by the chief executive that may allow a person to identify a person to whom the instrument or information relates.'.