Commonwealth Numbered Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM ACT 2006 (NO. 14, 2006) - SECT 34

                   For the purposes of this Act, if:

                     (a)  a wellhead is situated in the title area of a title (the first title ); and

                     (b)  the well from that wellhead is inclined so as to enter a petroleum pool at a place within an adjoining title area of a title (the second title ) of the same titleholder; and

                     (c)  the pool does not extend to the title area of the first title;

any petroleum recovered through that well is taken to have been recovered in the adjoining title area under the second title.