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Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967
108Removal of property etc. by Designated Authority
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#### 108 Removal of property etc. by Designated Authority
(1) This section applies if:
(a) a permit has been wholly or partly determined or wholly or partly cancelled, or has expired; or
(b) a lease has been wholly or partly determined or wholly cancelled, or has expired; or
(c) a licence has been wholly or partly determined or wholly or partly cancelled, has been terminated or has expired; or
(d) an infrastructure licence has been cancelled or has been terminated; or
(e) a pipeline licence has been wholly or partly determined or wholly or partly cancelled, or has been terminated.
(2) If a direction under section 107 has not been complied with, or an arrangement under that section has not been carried out, in relation to the relinquished area:
(a) the Designated Authority may do all or any of the things required by the direction or arrangement to be done; and
(b) if any property brought into that area by any person engaged or concerned in the operations authorized by the permit, pipeline licence, licence, lease or infrastructure licence has not been removed in accordance with the direction or arrangement, the Designated Authority may, by instrument published in the Gazette, direct that the owner or owners of that property shall remove it from that area, or dispose of it to the satisfaction of the Designated Authority, within the period specified in the instrument and shall serve a copy of the instrument on each person whom he believes to be an owner of that property or any part of that property.