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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2010
232Application for petroleum special prospecting authority
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232 Application for petroleum special prospecting authority
(1) A person may apply to the Minister for the grant of a petroleum special prospecting authority over a block or blocks, so long as none of the following is in force over that block or any of those blocks—
(d) a greenhouse gas assessment permit;
(e) a greenhouse gas holding lease;
(f) a greenhouse gas injection licence.
(a) the petroleum exploration operations that the applicant proposes to carry on; and
(b) the block or blocks within which the applicant proposes to carry on those operations.