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Petroleum Act 1923
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### sec.76D Public release of required information
The mere fact of the existence of a 1923 Act petroleum tenure is taken to be an authorisation from the holder of the tenure to the chief executive to do the following in relation to required information for the tenure—
to publish, in the way prescribed by regulation, the information for public use, including, for example, to support petroleum exploration, production or development;
to make the information available to a person on payment of the fee prescribed by regulation.
Subsections (3) to (5) apply if a confidentiality period is prescribed by regulation for the required information.
Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the required information until the confidentiality period ends.
Subsection (5) applies if—
the required information is about an authorised activity carried out only in an area that stops being in the area of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure; and
immediately before the area stops being in the area of the tenure, the confidentiality period has not ended.
The confidentiality period ends when the area stops being in the area of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure.
An authorisation under subsection (1) is not affected by the ending of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure.
s 76D ins 2004 No. 26 s 46
amd 2024 No. 33 s 154
(sec.76D-ssec.1) The mere fact of the existence of a 1923 Act petroleum tenure is taken to be an authorisation from the holder of the tenure to the chief executive to do the following in relation to required information for the tenure— to publish, in the way prescribed by regulation, the information for public use, including, for example, to support petroleum exploration, production or development; to make the information available to a person on payment of the fee prescribed by regulation.
(sec.76D-ssec.2) Subsections (3) to (5) apply if a confidentiality period is prescribed by regulation for the required information.
(sec.76D-ssec.3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the required information until the confidentiality period ends.
(sec.76D-ssec.4) Subsection (5) applies if— the required information is about an authorised activity carried out only in an area that stops being in the area of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure; and immediately before the area stops being in the area of the tenure, the confidentiality period has not ended.
(sec.76D-ssec.5) The confidentiality period ends when the area stops being in the area of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure.
(sec.76D-ssec.6) An authorisation under subsection (1) is not affected by the ending of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure.
- (a) to publish, in the way prescribed by regulation, the information for public use, including, for example, to support petroleum exploration, production or development;
- (b) to make the information available to a person on payment of the fee prescribed by regulation.
- (a) the required information is about an authorised activity carried out only in an area that stops being in the area of the 1923 Act petroleum tenure; and
- (b) immediately before the area stops being in the area of the tenure, the confidentiality period has not ended.