Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 301

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if the responsible Commonwealth Minister publishes a notice under subsection   296(1) inviting applications for the grant of a greenhouse gas assessment permit.

Withdrawal by single applicant

  (2)   If a person has made an application, the person may, by written notice given to the responsible Commonwealth Minister, withdraw the application at any time before a greenhouse gas assessment permit is granted as a result of the application.

Withdrawal by all joint applicants

  (3)   If 2 or more persons have made a joint application, all of those persons may, by written notice given to the responsible Commonwealth Minister, withdraw the application at any time before a greenhouse gas assessment permit is granted as a result of the application.

Withdrawal by one or more, but not all, joint applicants

  (4)   If:

  (a)   a joint application was made under section   296 for the grant of a greenhouse gas assessment permit; and

  (b)   all of the joint applicants, by written notice given to the responsible Commonwealth Minister, tell the responsible Commonwealth Minister that one or more, but not all, of them, as specified in the notice, withdraw from the application;

then:

  (c)   the application continues in force as if it had been made by the remaining applicant or applicants; and

  (d)   if the responsible Commonwealth Minister had given the joint applicants an offer document in relation to the application--the responsible Commonwealth Minister is taken not to have given the offer document to the joint applicants.