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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 597

General power of correction of Register

    (1)     The Minister may make such entries in the Register as the Minister considers appropriate for the purposes of ensuring that the Register accurately records the interests and rights existing in relation to a title.

    (2)     The Minister may exercise the power conferred by subsection (1)—

        (a)     on written application being made to the Minister by a person; or

        (b)     on the Minister's own initiative.

    (3)     Before the Minister makes an entry in the Register under subsection (1), the Minister must cause to be published in the Government Gazette a notice—

        (a)     setting out the terms of the entry that the Minister proposes to make in the Register; and

        (b)     inviting interested persons to give the Minister written submissions about the making of the entry; and

        (c)     specifying a time limit for the making of those submissions.

    (4)     The time limit must not be shorter than 45 days after the publication of the notice.

    (5)     In deciding whether to make the entry in the Register, the Minister must take into account any submissions made in accordance with the notice.

    (6)     If the Minister makes an entry in the Register under subsection (1), the Minister must cause to be published in the Government Gazette a notice setting out the terms of the entry.



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