Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE MINERALS ACT 1994 - SECT 328

  (1)   Each Designated Authority must keep an offshore mining register.

Note 1:   The main matters entered in the register are:

• the grant or renewal of a licence (see sections   333 and 334);

• details of instruments that affect a licence (see section   337);

• details of instruments that affect an interest in a licence (see sections   338 and 339);

• details of interests in a licence that are acquired by devolution (see section   340);

• details of caveats (see section   345).

Note 2:   Section   145.4 of the Criminal Code deals with offences in relation to the proper keeping of the register (for example, falsification of documents).

  (2)   The register for a particular Commonwealth - State offshore area is to be known as the Commonwealth - State Offshore Mining Register for that State.

  (3)   The register for a particular external territory offshore area is to be known as the External Territory Offshore Mining Register for that external territory.