Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.8 171
Definitions 171 In this Division, appropriate authority means (a) before the determination of whether a transboundary pool exists is made and, if applicable, its boundaries have been delineated, the authority that is responsible for the jurisdiction (i) adjoining the portion of the perimeter where the drilling took place or where a pool exists, and (ii) into which there is reason to believe that, based on the data obtained from any drilling, the pool extends, and (b) after that determination is made, the authority that is responsible for the jurisdiction into which the pool extends; ( organisme de réglementation concerné ) authority means the Government of Canada, a government of a province, a foreign government or any of their agencies or a federal-provincial regulatory agency that has administrative responsibility for the exploration and exploitation of petroleum in the area adjoining the perimeter; ( organisme de réglementation ) expert means a person who is appointed under subsection 188.16(2) and includes an expert panel constituted under subsection 188.16(3) or a person or arbitral tribunal who is appointed in accordance with any applicable treaty referred to under subsection 188.16(9); ( expert ) perimeter means the portion of the offshore area that is within 10 nautical miles of the limit of that offshore area; ( bande limitrophe ) pooled spacing unit means the area that is subject to a pooling agreement or a pooling order; ( unité d’espacement mise en commun ) pooled tract means the portion of a pooled spacing unit defined as a tract in a pooling agreement or a pooling order; ( parcelle mise en commun ) pooling agreement means an agreement to pool the interests of owners in a spacing unit and to provide for the operation or the drilling and operation of a well thereon; ( accord de mise en commun ) pooling order means an order made under section 173 or as altered pursuant to section 175; ( arrêté de mise en commun ) royalty interest means any interest in, or the right to receive a portion of, any petroleum produced and saved from a field or pool or part of a field or pool or the proceeds from the sale thereof, but does not include a working interest or the interest of any person whose sole interest is as a purchaser of petroleum from the pool or part thereof; ( droit à redevance ) royalty owner means a person, including Her Majesty, who owns a royalty interest; ( titulaire de redevance ) spacing unit means the area allocated to a well for the purpose of drilling for or producing petroleum; ( unité d’espacement ) tract participation means the share of production from a unitized zone that is allocated to a unit tract under a unit agreement or unitization order or the share of production from a pooled spacing unit that is allocated to a pooled tract under a pooling agreement or pooling order; ( fraction parcellaire ) transboundary , in relation to a pool, means extending beyond the Regulator’s jurisdiction under this Act; ( transfrontalier ) unit agreement means an agreement to unitize the interests of owners in a pool or part thereof exceeding in area a spacing unit, or such an agreement as varied by a unitization order; ( accord d’union ) unit area means the area that is subject to a unit agreement; ( secteur unitaire ) unit operating agreement means an agreement, providing for the management and operation of a unit area and a unitized zone, that is entered into by working interest owners who are parties to a unit agree ment with respect to that unit area and unitized zone, and includes a unit operating agreement as varied by a unitization order; ( accord d’exploitation unitaire ) unit operation means those operations conducted pursuant to a unit agreement or a unitization order; ( exploitation unitaire ) unit operator means a person designated as a unit operator under a unit operating agreement; ( exploitant unitaire ) unit tract means the portion of a unit area that is defined as a tract in a unit agreement; ( parcell