Western Australian Current Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 60D

60D .         Notices to be given by Minister

        (1)         This section applies if the Minister is prepared to grant an infrastructure licence (the proposed infrastructure licence ) in respect of a place in a block that —

            (a)         is the subject of a permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence, special prospecting authority or access authority; or

            (b)         is, or is proposed to be, transected by a pipeline in accordance with the provisions of a pipeline licence,

                of which the registered holder is a person other than the applicant.

        (2)         The Minister shall not inform the applicant under section 60C that the Minister is prepared to grant the proposed infrastructure licence unless the Minister —

            (a)         has, by written notice served on the registered holder referred to in subsection (1), given not less than one month’s notice that the Minister is prepared to grant the proposed infrastructure licence; and

            (b)         has served a copy of the notice on such other persons (if any) as the Minister thinks fit; and

            (c)         has, in the notice —

                  (i)         given particulars of the proposed infrastructure licence; and

                  (ii)         specified a date, on or before which a person on whom the notice, or a copy of the notice, is served may, by writing served on the Minister, submit any matters that the person wishes the Minister to consider;

                and

            (d)         has taken into account any matters so submitted on or before the specified date by a person on whom the first-mentioned notice, or a copy of it, has been served.

        (3)         Subsection (2) does not apply —

            (a)         in respect of the registered holder of a permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence if the registered holder has consented in writing to the grant of the proposed infrastructure licence; or

            (b)         in respect of the registered holder of a special prospecting authority or an access authority if —

                  (i)         the registered holder has consented in writing to the grant of the proposed infrastructure licence; or

                  (ii)         the special prospecting authority or access authority will expire before any construction or operation of facilities under the proposed infrastructure licence would occur.

        [Section 60D inserted: No. 42 of 2010 s. 112.]