Western Australian Current Regulations

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) (RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION) REGULATIONS 2015 - REG 92

92 .         Release of documentary information: prior availability or consent

        (1)         Subject to subregulation (2), the Minister may make documentary information publicly known or make documentary information available to a person if —

            (a)         the instrument holder who gave the information to the Minister has made the information publicly known; or

            (b)         the instrument holder who gave the information to the Minister has consented in writing to the information being made publicly known or made available, as the case may be.

        (2)         If documentary information relating to a block was given to the Minister under a special prospecting authority, an access authority or an instrument of consent under section 123 of the Act, subregulation (1) applies only if the information relates to a period when no permit, lease or licence was in force over the block.