252Regulations

252 Regulations

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

(a) determining the dimensions, boundaries, form, position and extent of an authority area; and

(b) determining the requirements to be complied with by people who wish to acquire authorities; and

(c) prescribing conditions that are to apply to a particular type of authority or to authorities generally; and

(d) prescribing the fees payable for authorities and gathering lines, and the fees for applications, the processing of applications, renewals, authority variations and extensions, authority condition variations and suspensions, surveys, inspections by inspectors, technical and other assessments undertaken by the Department or its agents, exemptions, registrations in the petroleum register, inspection of the petroleum register and access to released information; and

(e) prescribing annual fees payable by the holders of authorities; and

(f) prescribing the rent that is payable by the holders of authorities for occupying Crown land; and

(g) requiring the holders of authorities to submit specified information to the Minister and to keep specified information, records and samples; and

(h) the information to be contained in work programs, development plans, unit developments, operation plans, and other plans, manuals and reports required of authority holders; and

(i) requirements for pecuniary interests statements; and

(j) the petroleum register and the documents to be registered; and

(k) regulating inquiries and investigations conducted into matters under this Act; and

(l) requirements for gathering lines; and

(m) the prevention of nuisances in or about authority land and for cleaning and keeping clean authority land, and without limiting this head of power, the prevention of the pollution of the seashore or the sea or inland waters from petroleum operations; and

S. 252(1)(n) amended by No. 55/2010 s. 65(1).

(n) prescribing precautions and measures for the treatment of water underground or at the surface and for the prevention of waste of petroleum; and

(o) regulating the separation, storage, transportation and utilisation of anything produced under an authority; and

(p) regulating the production and treatment of petroleum under an authority; and

(q) ensuring that precautions will be taken against flooding, and prescribing the methods to be adopted if wells are abandoned; and

S. 252(1)(r) amended by No. 55/2010 s. 65(2).

(r) ensuring that well making, geophysical surveys, geochemical surveys and other petroleum operations are carried out with due diligence and by satisfactory methods;