Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 127A

127A .         Service of documents on 2 or more permittees etc.

        (1)         Where there are 2 or more registered holders of a title or special prospecting authority, those registered holders shall, by notice in writing signed by each of them and served on the Minister, nominate one of the registered holders as being the person on whom documents relating to the title or special prospecting authority that are required or permitted by this Act to be served may be served.

        (2)         Subject to subsections (3) and (4), where —

            (a)         a document relating to a title or special prospecting authority is required or permitted by this Act to be served on the registered holder; and

            (b)         there are 2 or more registered holders of the title or special prospecting authority; and

            (c)         the document is served on a person in respect of whom a nomination under subsection (1) is in force in relation to the title or special prospecting authority,

                the document shall be deemed to have been served on each of those registered holders.

        (3)         Where —

            (a)         a person has been nominated under subsection (1) in relation to a title or special prospecting authority; and

            (b)         one of the registered holders of the title or special prospecting authority, by notice in writing served on the Minister, revokes that nomination,

                that nomination ceases to be in force and the registered holders of the title or special prospecting authority shall forthwith make a fresh nomination under subsection (1) in relation to the title or special prospecting authority.

        (4)         Where —

            (a)         a person has been nominated under subsection (1) in relation to a title or special prospecting authority; and

            (b)         the person so nominated ceases to be one of the registered holders of the title or special prospecting authority,

                that nomination ceases to be in force and, if 2 or more registered holders of the title or special prospecting authority remain, those holders shall forthwith make a fresh nomination under subsection (1) in relation to the title or special prospecting authority.

        (5)         In this section, title means a permit, lease, licence or access authority.

        [Section 127A inserted by No. 12 of 1990 s. 101.]