Western Australian Current Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 18

18 .         Reservation of blocks

        (1)         The Minister may, by instrument published in the Gazette , declare that a permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence, special prospecting authority or access authority shall not be granted in respect of a block specified in the instrument and that a pipeline licence shall not be granted in respect of a pipeline over or in that block.

        (2A)         A declaration cannot be made under subsection (1) in respect of a block in respect of which a permit, lease, licence or infrastructure licence is in force or over or in which there is a pipeline.

        (2)         While a declaration under subsection (1) remains in force in respect of a block, a permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence, special prospecting authority or access authority shall not be granted in respect of that block and a pipeline licence shall not be granted in respect of a pipeline over or in that block.

        [Section 18 amended: No. 12 of 1990 s. 164; No. 42 of 2010 s. 75.]