44Area of production lease

44 Area of production lease

44 Area of production lease

(1) The area comprised in a production lease must be not more than 4 blocks.

(2) The land over which a production lease is granted may differ in size or shape from, but may not include land other than, the land over which the production lease was sought.

(3) Subsection (2)—

(a) extends to the grant of a single production lease for 2 or more applications made by the same applicant, and

(b) as extended, applies as if the land over which the production lease was sought was the land over which the 2 or more production leases were sought.

s 44: Am 2022 No 21, Sch 2[25].