STATUTORY RULES.
1927. No. 33.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING ACTS 1926.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Petroleum Prospecting Acts 1926, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this eighteenth day of April, 1927.
STONEHAVEN,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE,
for Minister of State for Home and Territories.
Amendment of Petroleum Prospecting Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 45.)
1. Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 7 of the Petroleum Prospecting Regulations is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following proviso:—
“Provided that a clause in accordance with paragraph (b) shall not be included in the agreement where an advance in the nature of a lump sum has been approved by the Minister”.
2. Sub-regulation 1 of regulation 8 of the Petroleum Prospecting Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the words “and within the limits specified in the agreement in respect of the following matters” and inserting in their stead the words “and, where limits in respect of the following matters are specified in the agreement, within those limits”.
3. After regulation 9 of the Petroleum Prospecting Regulations, the following regulation is inserted in Part II.:—
“9a. Where a person or company has entered into a contract for the sinking of a bore, such amendments as the circumstances require may be made to the prescribed form of statutory declaration”.
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