Western Australian Current Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 23C

23C .         Effect of withdrawal or lapse of application

                If —

            (a)         2 or more applications have been made under section 20 for the grant of a permit in respect of the same block or blocks; and

            (b)         one or more, but not all, of the applications are withdrawn or have lapsed,

                the following paragraphs have effect —

            (c)         the withdrawn or lapsed application or applications are taken not to have been made;

            (d)         if the Minister had informed the applicant or one of the applicants whose application had been withdrawn or had lapsed that the Minister was prepared to grant to that applicant a permit in respect of the block or blocks — the Minister is taken not to have so informed the applicant concerned;

            (e)         if the applicant or one of the applicants whose application had been withdrawn had requested the Minister under section 22(3) to grant a permit to the applicant concerned — the request is taken not to have been made;

            (f)         if the Minister had refused to grant a permit to the remaining applicant or any of the remaining applicants — the refusal or refusals are taken not to have occurred.

        [Section 23C inserted: No. 42 of 2010 s. 78.]