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Petroleum Act 1984
109Operations near residence or other area
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109 Operations near residence or other area
(1) Subject to subsection (4), a permittee or licensee must not carry out
an operation on land that is:
(a) used as, or within 50 m of land being used as, a residence,
yard, garden, orchard or cultivated field; or
(b) within a distance of 200 m of any artificial accumulation of
water or any outlet from which water may be obtained.
licensee carries out an operation in contravention of subsection (1).
written approval to carry out the operations by:
(a) the owner of the land or, if the occupier of the land has, in the
land, an interest registered on the Register kept by the
Registrar-General under Part 3 of the Land Title Act 2000, the
occupier; and
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(b) any registered native title bodies corporate, or registered
native title claimants, in relation to the land.