Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Amendment Act 2001 (Cth)

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Amendment Act 2001

No. 29, 2001

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Amendment Act 2001

No. 29, 2001

An Act to amend the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Act 1967, and for related purposes

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Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Amendment Act 2001

No. 29, 2001

An Act to amend the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Act 1967, and for related purposes

[Assented to 28 April 2001]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Amendment Act 2001.

2Commencement

This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, at the same time as Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Legislation Amendment Act 2001.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Act 1967

1

Subsections 4(4), (5) and (6A)

Omit “Joint Authority” (wherever occurring), substitute “Designated Authority”.

2

Subsection 4(6B)

Omit “with the approval of the Joint Authority”.

3

Transitional—acts of the Joint Authority to be attributed to the Designated Authority

(1) This item applies to any thing done by the Joint Authority under any of the following provisions of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Act 1967 before the commencement of this item:

1. (a)

   paragraph 4(4)(a);

2. (b)

   paragraph 4(5)(b);

3. (c)

   paragraph 4(6A)(a).

(2) The thing has effect, after the commencement of this item, as if it had been done by the Designated Authority.

(188/00)

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 6 December 2000

Senate on 5 April 2001]