PETROLEUM REGULATIONS 1994 (Repealed)

These Regulations shall come into operation on the commencement of the Petroleum Amendment Act 1994.

The prescribed fee or amount under those sections of the Act specified in Column 1 of the Schedule for or in respect of a matter described opposite in Column 2 is the amount shown opposite in Column 3.

(1) If an annual rent prescribed by these Regulations for a permit or licence mentioned in section 26, 39 or 53 of the Act is payable in respect of a period any of which is after 30 June 2000, the amount of the rent payable in respect of the period after 30 June 2000 is increased by the amount of the GST component.

(2) Despite that rent in respect of a period after 30 June 2000 may have been paid, the additional amount of the GST component may be separately charged and is payable by the permittee or licensee within 1 month after the date the charge is made.

(3) The GST component of rent in respect of a period after 30 June 2000 is to be calculated in accordance with the formula:

(4) In this regulation GST has the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth Regulations means the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Datum) Regulations 2002 of the Commonwealth as in force from time to time other than regulation 5(4) of those Regulations or a regulation (if any) as in force from time to time after the commencement of the Petroleum Amendment Act 2003 that re-enacts, whether with or without modification, that regulation.

(2) The Commonwealth Regulations are incorporated as part of these Regulations and, subject to subregulation (3), apply as a law of the Territory as part of these Regulations.

(a) an expression in the Commonwealth Regulations that is the same as an expression defined in the Act has the same meaning as in the Act;

(b) a reference in the Commonwealth Regulations to a provision of the Petroleum Act 1967 of the Commonwealth is a reference to the corresponding provision of the Act;

(d) a reference in the Commonwealth Regulations to a title is a reference to a petroleum interest or to a permit or lease granted or renewed under the repealed Act;

(e) a reference in the Commonwealth Regulations to a permit is a reference to an exploration permit;

(f) a reference in the Commonwealth Regulations to a permit area is a reference to an exploration permit area;

(g) a reference in the Commonwealth Regulations to a lease is a reference to a lease granted or renewed under the repealed Act;

(h) a reference in the Commonwealth Regulations to a lease area is a reference to the area in respect of which a lease was granted or renewed under the repealed Act; and

(i) a reference in the Commonwealth Regulations to the area in respect of which an access authority is in force is a reference to an access authority area.

Column 1 Section	Column 2 Description	Column 3 Revenue units
16	Application for permit	4 592
23	Application for renewal of permit	1 809
26	Rent payable in relation to an exploration permit per block per annum	435
28	Variation, suspension or waiver of condition of exploration permit	761
32	Application for retention licence	9 680
37	Application for renewal of retention licence	1 809
39	Rent payable in relation to a retention licence per block per annum	9 415
41	Variation, suspension or waiver of conditions of retention licence	761
45	Application for production licence	9 680
51	Application for renewal of production licence	2 285
53	Rent payable in relation to a production licence per block or part of a block per annum	11 500
55	Variation, suspension or waiver of conditions of production licence	761
57A	Application for access authority	761
61(2)	Making available information contained in or accompanying application	57
73(1)	Application to surrender of all or part of permit area	761
73(1A)	Application to surrender all or part of licence area	761
93A(1)	Entry in Register of memorial of transfer	1 142
94(2)	Entry in Register of name of applicant as permittee or licensee	57
96(7)	Entry in Register of approval of instrument	666
100	Inspection of Register and instruments	19
102(2)	Copy of or extract from Register or instrument (per page)	6
102(3)	Certificate issued by Registrar	33

amd = amended od = order
app = appendix om = omitted
bl = by-law pt = Part
ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule
cl = clause rem = remainder
div = Division renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired rep = repealed
f = forms s = section
Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule
hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision
ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation
lt = long title sub = substituted

Petroleum Regulations (SL No. 32, 1994)
Notified	30 September 1994
Commenced	30 September 1994 (r 1, s 2 Petroleum Amendment Act 1994 (Act No. 49, 1994) and Gaz S51, 30 September 1994)
Amendment of Petroleum Regulations (SL No. 35, 2000)
Notified	30 June 2000
Commenced	30 June 2000
Amendments of Petroleum Regulations (SL No. 31, 2003)
Notified	4 June 2003
Commenced	2 July 2003 (r 1, s 2 Petroleum Amendment Act 2003 (Act No. 14, 2003) and Gaz G26, 2 July 2003, p 2)
Fees and Charges Amendment Regulations 2009 (SL No. 34, 2009)
Notified	14 December 2009
Commenced	1 January 2010 (r 2)
Petroleum Amendment (Fees) Regulations (SL No. 13, 2013)
Notified	29 May 2013
Commenced	1 July 2013 (r 2)
Petroleum Amendment Regulations (SL No. 32, 2019)
Notified	20 December 2019
Commenced	1 January 2020 (r 2)

General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: r 2.

Northern Territory Repealed Regulations

PETROLEUM REGULATIONS 1994