Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00257:section:3:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00257
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 11189–13802

a naturally occurring discrete accumulation of oil, of gas, or of both.
relevant Energy Minister means:
 (a) on and after 18 September 1975 and before 5 October 1976—the Minister for Minerals and Energy; and
 (b) on and after 5 October 1976 and before 20 December 1977—the Minister for National Resources; and
 (c) on and after 20 December 1977 and before 8 December 1979—the Minister for National Development; and
 (d) on and after 8 December 1979 and before 11 March 1983—the Minister for National Development and Energy; and
 (e) on and after 11 March 1983 and before 1 July 1983—the Minister for Resources and Energy.
Resource Rent Tax area means an area that, for the purposes of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987, is:
 (a) the exploration permit area of an exploration permit other than one of the North West Shelf exploration permits; or
 (b) the retention lease area of a retention lease that is related to an exploration permit other than one of the North West Shelf exploration permits; or
 (c) the production licence area of a production licence that is related to an exploration permit other than one of the North West Shelf exploration permits.
Statistician means the Australian Statistician.
 (2) For the purposes of this Act, a relevant accumulation shall be taken to be developed when petroleum, within the meaning of section 5B, is recovered from the accumulation for the purpose of:
 (a) the sale of the petroleum; or
 (b) the production from the petroleum of a product for sale.
 (3) Without affecting the meaning of any reference to a month in any other provision of this Act or in any other Act, a reference in section 6AB, 6B, 6C, 6CA, 6D or 6E to a month is a reference to one of the 12 months of a calendar year.
 (4) The physical characteristics of fuel oil are:
 (a) a density equal to or greater than 920.0 kg/cubic metre at 15 degrees Celsius as determined by either ASTM D1298 or ASTM D4052; and
 (b) a carbon residue, on the whole sample, of at least 2.0 percent mass as determined by ASTM D189 (Conradson Carbon Residue) or by ASTM D4530 (Carbon Residue‑Micro Method); and
 (c) a minimum kinematic viscosity of 10 centistokes (millimetres squared per second) at 50 degrees Celsius as determined by ASTM D445.
 (5) In subsection (4), a reference to ASTM followed by a number is a reference to a test so numbered as prescribed by the American Society for Testing and Materials and set out in Section 5 of the Annual Book of ASTM Standards (1986 revision) published in 1986 by the American Society for Testing and Materials at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United