Victorian Current Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 232

    (1)     A person may apply to the Minister for the grant of a petroleum special prospecting authority over a block or blocks, so long as none of the following is in force over that block or any of those blocks—

        (a)     a petroleum exploration permit;

        (b)     a petroleum retention lease;

        (c)     a petroleum production licence;

        (d)     a greenhouse gas assessment permit;

        (e)     a greenhouse gas holding lease;

        (f)     a greenhouse gas injection licence.

    (2)     An application under this section must specify—

        (a)     the petroleum exploration operations that the applicant proposes to carry on; and

        (b)     the block or blocks within which the applicant proposes to carry on those operations.

Notes

1     Part 2.10 contains additional provisions about application procedures.

2     Section 252 requires the application to be accompanied by an application fee.