Victorian Numbered Acts

RESOURCES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (BTEX PROHIBITION AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2014 (NO. 68 OF 2014) - SECT 69

See:
Act No.
96/1998.
Reprint No. 2
as at
16 August 2012
and amending
Act Nos
64/2012 and 70/2013.
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s. 69

After section 101 of the Petroleum Act 1998 insert —

        " 101A     Further statutory condition of authority—hydraulic fracturing

    (1)     In addition to any other conditions, an authority is subject to the condition that the use of restricted hydraulic fracturing substances is prohibited in carrying out any hydraulic fracturing permitted by the authority.

    (2)     Despite anything to the contrary in this Act, this condition cannot be varied.

    (3)     In this section—

"hydraulic fracturing" means the injection of a substance or substances into a bore under pressure for the purposes of stimulating a geological formation;

"restricted hydraulic fracturing substances" means fluids or gases used for the purpose of hydraulic fracturing that contain petroleum hydrocarbons containing benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene or xylene in more than the maximum amount prescribed by the regulations.".