137Titles Administrator may request other cores, cuttings or samples

137  Titles Administrator may request other cores, cuttings or samples

 (1) This section applies if a petroleum titleholder:

 (b) collects a kind of core, cutting or sample that is not mentioned in column 1 of an item in the table in subsection 136(4).

Titles Administrator may request specified quantity of core, cutting or sample

 (2) The Titles Administrator may request that the petroleum titleholder give a specified quantity of the core, cutting or sample to the Titles Administrator.

 (3) The request must:

 (b) set out the quantity of the core, cutting or sample that must be given; and

 (c) specify a reasonable period within which the core, cutting or sample must be given.

 (4) A petroleum titleholder must comply with a request under subsection (2).

 (5) Subsection (4) does not apply if:

 (a) the quantity of the core, cutting or sample specified in the request is not available to the titleholder; and

 (c) the titleholder gives the Titles Administrator a written notice before the end of the period specified in the request that includes the following information:

 (ii) the total quantity of the core, cutting or sample that was recovered;

 (iii) the quantity (if any) of the core, cutting or sample that remains available to the titleholder.

Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in this subsection (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code and section 96 of the Regulatory Powers Act).

 (6) A petroleum titleholder commits an offence of strict liability if the titleholder contravenes subsection (4).

Note: This subsection is a continuing offence under section 4K of the Crimes Act 1914. See section 237 of this instrument for the maximum penalty for each day that an offence under this subsection continues.

 (7) A petroleum titleholder is liable to a civil penalty if the titleholder contravenes subsection (4).

Note: This subsection is a continuing civil penalty provision under section 93 of the Regulatory Powers Act. See section 237 of this instrument for the maximum civil penalty for each day that a contravention referred to in this subsection continues.