Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Fees and Securities Regulation 1991 (1991-246) [GG No 82 of 24.5.1991] (NSW)

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PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982—

REGULATION

(Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Fees and Securities Regulation 1991)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 82 of 24 May 1991]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

NEIL PICKARD

Minister for Minerals and Energy.

Citation

1. This Regulation may be cited as the Petroleum (Submerged Lands)

Fees and Securities Regulation 1991.

Commencement

2. This Regulation commences on 1st June, 1991.

Definition

3. In this Regulation:

“the Act’’ means the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982.

Fees

4. The prescribed. fee for the purposes of a provision of the Act

specified in Schedule 1 is the fee specified opposite that provision.

Securities

5. For the purposes of section 115 (1) (a) of the Act:

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(a)	$30,000 is the prescribed amount for a security referred to in Division 2 or 2A of Part 4 of the Act; and
(b)	$300,000 is the prescribed amount for a security referred to in

Division 3 of Part 4 of the Act; and

(c) $120,000 is the prescribed amount for a security referred to in Division 4 of Part 4 of the Act.

SCHEDULE 1—FEES

(C1. 4)

Application fees

Exploration permit (s. 22 (1) (f) ..........................................................	$3,000
Exploration permit for surrendered blocks (s. 25 (1) (a)) ........................	$3,000
Exploration permit renewal (s. 31 (2) (c)) .............................................	$1,200
Retention lease (s. 39A (2) (e)) ............................................................	$1,200
Retention lease renewal (s. 39F (2) (d)) ................................................	$1,200
Production licence (s. 42 (1) (e)) ..........................................................	$1,200
Production licence for surrendered blocks (s. 49 (1) (a)) ........................	$3,000
Production licence for individual block (s. 52 (2) (e)) ............................	$600
Production licence renewal (s. 55 (2) (d)) .................................................	$1,200
Pipeline licence (s. 65 (1) (f)) ..............................................................	$3,000
Pipline licence renewal (s. 69 (2) (c)) .....................................................	$1,200
Pipeline licence variation (s. 72 (2) (e)) ................................................	$600
Special prospecting authority (s. 112 (2) (d)) .........................................	$600

Transfer fees

Transfer fees generally (s. 92 (2), (3) and (6)) ....................................... $600

Transfer fees for related companies (s. 92 (4) and (BA)) ........................... $3,000

Annual fees

Exploration permit (s. 137) ......................... $1,000, or $50 for each block to which the permit relates at the beginning of the year concerned, whichever is the greater

Retention lease (s. 137A) ............................ $6,000 for each block to which the lease relates at the beginning of the year concerned

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SCHEDULE 1—FEES—continued

Production licence	(s. 138) ..........................	$18,000 for each block to which the licence relates at the beginning of the year concerned
Pipeline licence (s	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 which is $25 for each day, or part of a day,

lent to the person making the request (s. 119	during which the document is
(1A), (2), (5) and (5A))	on loan

Information contained in a document which is $25 for each hour, or part of an

not readily available and for which a search has	hour after the first half hour,
to be made (s. 119 (1A), (2), (5) and (5A))	taken to locate the information

Information which is, on the application of the An amount equal to the costs

person making the request, copied or	incurred in the copying,
reproduced or consigned to that person (s. 119	reproduction or consign-
(1A), (2), (5) and (5A))	ment, including the costs of packaging

Fees for the inspection of cores, cuttings or samples

Core, cutting or sample lent to the person $25 for each day, or part of a day,

making the request (s. 119 (3) and (5)) during which the core, cutting
or sample is on loan

Core, cutting or sample which is not readily $25 for each hour, or part of an

available and for which a search has to be	hour after the first half hour,
made (s. 119 (3) and (5))	taken to locate the core, cutting or sample

Core, cutting or sample which is, on the An amount equal to the costs

application of the person making the request,	incurred in the consignment,
consigned to that person (s. 119 (3) and (5))	including the costs of packaging

Miscellaneous fees

Register entry (s. 79 (2) and (3) (b)) ....................................................... $60
Inspection of Register and documents (s. 86 (1)) ....................................... $12
Provision of copies or extracts from Register etc. (s. 87 (2)) .......... $2 per page
Provision of evidentiary certificates (s. 87 (3)) .......................................... $30

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TABLE OF PROVISlONS

1. Citation

2. Commencement
3. Definition
4. Fees

5. Securities

SCHEDULE 1—FEES

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe the amounts of the fees and securities that must be lodged under the provisions of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982. Formerly, the amounts of such fees and securities were specified in that Act. Consequent on the enactment of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Amendment Act 1991, those amounts are now to be prescribed by regulation. The amounts of the fees and securities are equivalent to those prescribed by the regulations under the corresponding provisions of the Commonwealth Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 with which the New South Wales Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 is substantially uniform.