103Exemption

103 Exemption (a) a permit, lease or licence is under this Part, deemed to continue in force until the Minister grants, or refuses to grant, the renewal of the permit, lease or licence; (b) a licence is varied under section 45; (c) a licensee enters into an agreement under section 59 or a direction is given to a licensee under that section; (d) a permit, lease or licence is partly cancelled, partly determined or surrendered as to one or more but not all of the blocks in respect of which it is in force; (e) a pipeline licence is varied under section 71 or 72; (f) a direction is given to a pipeline licensee under section 73; (g) a pipeline licence is partly cancelled; (h) an access authority is granted in respect of a block the subject of a permit, lease or licence, or an access authority as in force in respect of such a block is varied; (j) a permittee, lessee, licensee, pipeline licensee or the holder of a special prospecting authority or access authority applies, by notice in writing served on the Minister: (i) for a variation or suspension; or (ii) for exemption from compliance with, any of the conditions to which the permit, lease, licence, pipeline licence, special prospecting authority or access authority is subject; or (k) the Minister under this Part or the Regulations gives a direction or consent to a permittee, lessee, licensee, pipeline licensee or the holder of a special prospecting authority or access authority, the Minister may, at any time, by notice in writing served on the permittee, lessee, licensee, pipeline licensee or the holder of the special prospecting authority or access authority: (m) vary or suspend; or

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1981 102 (n) exempt the permittee, lessee, licensee, pipeline licensee or the holder of the special prospecting authority or access authority from compliance with, any of the conditions to which the permit, lease, licence, pipeline licence, special prospecting authority or access authority is subject, upon such conditions, if any, as the Minister determines and specifies in the notice. (2) Subsection (1) does not authorize the making of an instrument to the extent that it would affect the term of a permit, lease or licence. (3) Where, in pursuance of subsection (1), the Minister suspends, or exempts the permittee or lessee from compliance with, any of the conditions to which a permit or lease is subject, the Minister may, if he or she considers that circumstances make it reasonable to do so, in the notice of suspension or exemption or by a later notice in writing served on the permittee or lessee, extend the term of the permit or lease by a period not exceeding the period of suspension or exemption.