(1)

A titleholder that wishes to carry out a well activity for which an accepted well operations management plan is required, or that wishes to replace an accepted well operations management plan, must:

(a)

give a well operations management plan to the Designated Authority; and

(b)

ask the Designated Authority to accept the well operations management plan.

Note 1
A titleholder does not require a current accepted well operations management plan for certain wells: see regulation 23.
Note 2
There is no compulsory form of request for this regulation.

(2) The titleholder must give the well operations management plan to the Designated Authority:

(a)

at least 30 days before the proposed start of the well activity; or

(b)

if the Designated Authority allows, in writing, another period — within that period.

(3) The well operations management plan:

(a)

must be in writing; and

(b)

may apply to well activities for more than 1 well.

Note
Section 25 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 explains the meaning of the word writing when it is used in legislation. The Designated Authority will make arrangements to notify the industry of formats for well operations management plans.

(4)

The titleholder must submit the well operations management plan as a single document unless the Designated Authority has given the titleholder permission, in writing, to submit the well operations management plan as 2 or more documents.

(5)

The titleholder must submit the entire well operations management plan unless the Designated Authority has given the titleholder permission, in writing, to submit parts of the well operations management plan, for particular stages of the activity, at one or more later times.