Western Australian Current Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 96

96 .         Commencement of works

        (1)         Where a permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence is granted subject to a condition that works or operations specified in the permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence are to be carried out, the permittee, lessee, licensee, infrastructure licensee or pipeline licensee, as the case may be, shall commence to carry out those works or operations within a period of 6 months after the day on which the permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence, as the case may be, comes into force.

        (2)         The Minister may, for reasons that he thinks sufficient, by instrument in writing served on a permittee, lessee, licensee, infrastructure licensee or pipeline licensee —

            (a)         exempt him from compliance with the requirements of subsection (1); and

            (b)         direct him to commence to carry out the works or operations specified in the permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence, as the case may be, within such period after the day on which the permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence, as the case may be, comes into force as is specified in the instrument.

        (3)         A person to whom a direction is given under subsection (2) shall comply with the direction.

        Penalty for an offence under subsection (1) or (3): a fine of $10 000.

        [Section 96 amended: No. 12 of 1990 s. 214; No. 42 of 2010 s. 131.]