Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACT 1967 - SECT 6A

6A .         Effect of alteration of inshore area

        (1)         In this section —

        inshore area means the area that comes within paragraph (h) of the definition of Crown land in section 5(1).

        (2)         This section applies to a change to the boundary of the inshore area whether occurring before, on or after the day on which the Petroleum and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 2010  ¹ section 5 comes into operation.

        (3)         If —

            (a)         a permit, lease or licence has been granted on the basis that an area (the affected area ) is within the inshore area; and

            (b)         as a result of a change to boundary of the inshore area, the affected area ceases to be within the inshore area,

                this Act applies in relation to the permit, lease or licence as if the affected area were still within the inshore area.

        (4)         Subsection (3) continues to apply in relation to the affected area only while the permit, lease or licence remains in force.

        [Section 6A inserted by No. 42 of 2010 s. 5.]