30ARenewal of permit in respect of blocks constituted by graticular sections wholly or partly in Area A of the Zone of Cooperation

#### 30A Renewal of permit in respect of blocks constituted by graticular sections wholly or partly in Area A of the Zone of Cooperation (1) This section applies to any permit that was, immediately before the commencement of this section, in force in respect of blocks all or a number of which were blocks constituted by graticular sections wholly or partly in Area A of the Zone of Cooperation. (2) Where, as a result of the amendments of section 5A made by the Petroleum (Australia‑Indonesia Zone of Cooperation) (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (which removed Area A from the adjacent areas) and of the operation of subsection 17(2): (a) a block specified in the permit has ceased to exist; or (b) the boundaries of a block specified in the permit have changed; the permit is taken not to specify any block referred to in paragraph (a), to specify each block referred to in paragraph (b) as that block exists immediately after the commencement of the amendments, and to specify each block unaffected by the amendments. (3) Where: (a) before the commencement of this section, an application had been made under section 30 for the renewal of a permit; and (b) at that commencement, no decision has been taken to renew, or to refuse to renew, the permit; the application is taken to specify the blocks which, as a result of the operation of subsection (2), constitute the permit area. (4) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, there was in force under section 103A an instrument of suspension in respect of a permit, then, on the commencement of this section: (a) the instrument is by force of this section revoked; and (b) the permittee is taken to have made an application under section 30 for the renewal by the Joint Authority of the permit in respect of the blocks which, as a result of the operation of subsection (2), constitute the permit area. (5) Section 31 does not apply to or in relation to an application: (a) that is referred to in subsection (3); or (b) that a permittee is taken to have made under subsection (4).