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PETROLEUM AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2005 No. 3 - SECT 67

67 Amendment of s 292 (Obligation to decommission)

(1) Section 292(1)--

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'(1) This section applies to a person (the responsible person) who holds a petroleum tenure on which there is a well, water observation bore or water supply bore drilled by or for the tenure holder or that has been transferred to the tenure holder.'.

(2) Section 292(3)--

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'(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply--

(a) for land that, under section 101(1), 30 ceases to be in the area of an authority to prospect; or
(b) if the tenure or authority ends because it is divided under chapter 2.'.

(3) Section 292(4)(a)--

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'(a) it has been plugged and abandoned in the way prescribed under a regulation; and'.

(4) Section 292(4)(b), before 'about the decommissioning'--

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'for the well or bore'.



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