New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 69M

69M Further arbitration

(1) A party to a hearing may, within 14 days after being served with a copy of the arbitrator's interim determination, apply to the arbitrator--

(a) for reconsideration of the question of access to the land concerned, or

(b) for variation of any draft access arrangement prepared by the arbitrator in respect of that land.

(2) As soon as practicable after receiving such an application, the arbitrator--

(a) must fix a time and place for continuing the hearing into the question of access to the land concerned, and

(b) must cause notice of the time and place fixed for continuing the hearing to be given to the holder of the prospecting title and to each landholder.

(3) The arbitrator may, by a further notice served on the holder of the prospecting title and on each landholder concerned, vary the time or place fixed for continuing the hearing.

(4) The arbitrator must, at the time and place fixed under this section, continue the hearing into the question of access to the land concerned.