Victorian Current Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 564

    (1)     The Minister must enter in the Register a memorial for each title and greenhouse gas search authority.

    (2)     A memorial with the content referred to in column 2 for an item of the table must comply with requirements for that item set out in column 3 of the table—

Content of memorial
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	In the case of...	the memorial must...
1	a title or greenhouse gas search authority	specify the name of the holder of the title.
2	a greenhouse gas assessment permit, greenhouse gas holding lease, greenhouse gas injection licence, greenhouse gas search authority or greenhouse gas special authority	set out an accurate description (including, where convenient, a map) of the permit area, lease area, licence area or authority area.
3	a title or greenhouse gas search authority	specify the term of the title or greenhouse gas search authority.
4	a title or greenhouse gas search authority	set out such other matters and things as are required by this Act to be entered in the Register.
5	a title or greenhouse gas search authority	set out such further matters relating to the registered holder, or to the conditions of the title or greenhouse gas search authority, as the Minister thinks proper and expedient in the public interest.

    (3)     The Minister must enter in the Register a memorial of—

        (a)     a notice or instrument—

              (i)     varying; or

              (ii)     cancelling; or

              (iii)     surrendering (to any extent); or

              (iv)     otherwise affecting—

        a title or greenhouse gas search authority; or

        (b)     a notice or instrument varying or revoking a notice or instrument referred to in paragraph (a).

Note

Subparagraph (a)(iv) would cover, for example, a notice revoking a greenhouse gas special authority.

    (4)     It is a sufficient compliance with the requirements of subsection (1), (2) or (3) if the Minister enters a copy of the title, greenhouse gas search authority, notice or instrument in the Register.

    (5)     The Minister must endorse on—

        (a)     the memorial; or

        (b)     the copy of the title, greenhouse gas search authority, notice or instrument—

a memorandum of the date on which the memorial or copy was entered in the Register.