New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 44

44 Area of production lease

(1) The area comprised in a production lease must be not more than 4 blocks.

(2) The land over which a production lease is granted may differ in size or shape from, but may not include land other than, the land over which the production lease was sought.

(3) Subsection (2)--

(a) extends to the grant of a single production lease for 2 or more applications made by the same applicant, and

(b) as extended, applies as if the land over which the production lease was sought was the land over which the 2 or more production leases were sought.