17The *Acts Amendment (Mining and Petroleum) Act 1999* s. 23(2) and (3) read as follows:

17 The *Acts Amendment (Mining and Petroleum) Act 1999* s. 23(2) and (3) read as follows: (2) Section 15A as inserted into the *Petroleum Act 1967* by subsection (1) does not prohibit operations being carried out under the authority of — (a) a relevant licence on land that immediately before the commencement of section 22 was declared under section 15(2) of that Act to be Crown land and land to which that Act applied; or (b) the Barrow Island lease. (3) In subsection (2) — ***Barrow Island lease*** has the meaning given in section 128 of the *Petroleum Act 1967*; ***relevant licence*** means a production licence for petroleum in force under Part III of the *Petroleum Act 1967* immediately before the commencement of this section.