Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00211:clause:1_2ac
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00211
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 2AC
Character Range: 17131–17745

2AC  Exclusion of incidental exploration etc. for petroleum
  An authority or right under an Australian law is taken, for the purposes of this Act (other than this section), not to be:
 (a) an authority or right mentioned in paragraph (b) of the definition of exploration permit in section 2; or
 (b) an authority or right mentioned in paragraph (b) of the definition of retention lease in that section;
if, to the extent that the authority or right permits activities of a kind mentioned in a subparagraph of that paragraph, it only permits them as an incident of exploration for resources other than petroleum.