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Petroleum (Offshore) Regulation 2006

[2006-439]


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Current version for 1 July 2008 to date (accessed 25 May 2013 at 21:35).
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Provisions in force
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Formerly known as:
Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Regulation 2006

Staged repeal status
This legislation is currently due to be automatically repealed under the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 on 1 September 2013

Authorisation
This version of the legislation is compiled and maintained in a database of legislation by the Parliamentary Counsel's Office and published on the NSW legislation website, and is certified as the form of that legislation that is correct under section 45C of the Interpretation Act 1987.

File last modified 27 July 2012.

Contents

1 Name of Regulation
2 Commencement
3 Definition
4 Fees
5 Transfer of title
6 Saving

Schedule 1 Fees

Schedule 2 Form of instrument of transfer

Historical notes

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1   Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Petroleum (Offshore) Regulation 2006.

2   Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 September 2006.
Note. This Regulation replaces the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Regulation 2001 which is repealed on 1 September 2006 by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.

3   Definition

(1)  In this Regulation:

the Act means the Petroleum (Offshore) Act 1982.

(2)  Notes included in this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation.

4   Fees

The fee for the purposes of a provision of the Act specified in Schedule 1 is the fee specified opposite that provision.

5   Transfer of title

The prescribed form for an instrument of transfer referred to in section 78 (3) (a) of the Act is the Form set out in Schedule 2.

6   Saving

Any act, matter or thing that had effect under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Regulation 2001 immediately before the repeal of that Regulation is taken to have effect under this Regulation.

Schedule 1 Fees

(Clause 4)

Application fees

Exploration permit (section 22 (1) (f))

$3,000

Exploration permit for surrendered etc blocks (section 25 (1) (a))

$3,000

Exploration permit renewal (section 31 (2) (c))

$1,200

Retention lease (section 39A (2) (e))

$1,200

Retention lease renewal (section 39F (2) (d))

$1,200

Production licence (section 42 (1) (e))

$1,200

Production licence for surrendered etc blocks (section 49 (1) (a))

$3,000

Production licence for individual blocks (section 52 (2) (e))

$600

Production licence renewal (section 55 (2) (d))

$1,200

Pipeline licence (section 65 (1) (f))

$3,000

Pipeline licence renewal (section 69 (2) (c))

$1,200

Pipeline licence variation (section 72 (2) (e))

$600

Special prospecting authority (section 112 (2) (d))

$600

Transfer fees

Transfer fees generally (section 92 (2), (3) and (6))

$600

Transfer fees for related corporations (section 92 (4) and (6A))

$3,000

Annual fees

Exploration permit (section 137)

$1,000, or $50 for each block to which the permit relates as at the beginning of the year concerned, whichever is the greater

Retention lease (section 137A)

$6,000 for each block to which the lease relates as at the beginning of the year concerned

Production licence (section 138)

$18,000 for each block to which the licence relates as at the beginning of the year concerned

Pipeline licence (section 139)

$80 for each kilometre, or part of a kilometre, of the length of the pipeline as at the beginning of the year concerned

Fees for the release of information

Information contained in a document that is lent to the person making the request (section 119 (1A), (2), (5) and (5A))

$25 for each day, or part of a day, during which the document is on loan

Information contained in a document that is not readily available and for which a search has to be made (section 119 (1A), (2), (5) and (5A))

$25 for each hour, or part of an hour after the first half hour, taken to locate the information

Information that is, on the application of the person making the request, copied or reproduced or consigned to that person (section 119 (1A), (2), (5) and (5A))

An amount equal to the costs incurred in the copying, reproduction or consignment, including the costs of packaging

Fees for the inspection of cores, cuttings or samples

Core, cutting or sample lent to the person making the request (section 119 (3) and (5))

$25 for each day, or part of a day, during which the core, cutting or sample is on loan

Core, cutting or sample that is not readily available and for which a search has to be made (section 119 (3) and (5))

$25 for each hour, or part of an hour after the first half hour, taken to locate the core, cutting or sample

Core, cutting or sample that is, on the application of the person making the request, consigned to that person (section 119 (3) and (5))

An amount equal to the costs incurred in the consignment, including the costs of packaging

Miscellaneous fees

Register entry (section 79 (2) and (3) (b))

$60

Inspection of Register and documents (section 86 (1))

$12 per inspection

Provision of copies of, or extracts from, Register or of or from certain other documents (section 87 (2))

$2 per page

Provision of evidentiary certificates (section 87 (3))

$30 per certificate

Schedule 2 Form of instrument of transfer

(Clause 5)

Transfer of title

Section 78, Petroleum (Offshore) Act 1982

I/We*[name or names] being the registered holder/holders* of [type (eg exploration permit, production licence) and number of title being transferred], in consideration of [value of consideration for the transfer or value of title transferred]1 hereby transfer all right, title and interest in that [type (eg exploration permit, production licence) and number of title being transferred] to [name and address of transferee, or, if there are two or more transferees, of all transferees].

IN WITNESS of this transfer the parties to the transfer have affixed their respective common seals or signatures below on this            day of                      20     .

Transferor

Transferee

* Delete whichever is inapplicable

1 If the transfer of the title is pursuant to a dealing that has been approved and registered under the Act, insert a reference that is sufficient to identify that dealing.

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am

amended

LW

legislation website

Sch

Schedule

Cl

clause

No

number

Schs

Schedules

Cll

clauses

p

page

Sec

section

Div

Division

pp

pages

Secs

sections

Divs

Divisions

Reg

Regulation

Subdiv

Subdivision

GG

Government Gazette

Regs

Regulations

Subdivs

Subdivisions

Ins

inserted

Rep

repealed

Subst

substituted

Table of amending instruments

Petroleum (Offshore) Regulation 2006 (439) (formerly Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Regulation 2006). GG No 100 of 11.8.2006, p 6175. Date of commencement, 1.9.2006, cl 2. This Regulation has been amended as follows:

2007

No 27

Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2007. Assented to 4.7.2007.
Date of commencement of Sch 1.40, 1.7.2008, Sch 1.40 and Commonwealth FRLI F2008L02273.

Table of amendments

Cl 1

Am 2007 No 27, Sch 1.40 [1].

Cl 3

Am 2007 No 27, Sch 1.40 [2].

Sch 2

Am 2007 No 27, Sch 1.40 [3].

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