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Oil and Gas (Papua LNG Project) (Amendment) Act 2021

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Oil and Gas (Papua LNG Project) (Amendment) Act 2021

No. 7 of 2021.

Certified on: 28 AUG 2021

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION

New Section 195.

"195. 2020 AMENDMENT ACT NOT APPLICABLE TO PAPUA LNG PROJECT.".

AN ACT

entitled

Oil and Gas (Papua LNG Project) (Amendment) Act 2021,

Being an Act to amend the Oil and Gas Act 1998,

MADE by the National Parliament and deemed to come into operation on the date that the Oil and Gas (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 11 of 2020) came into effect.

NEW SECTION 195.

The Principal Act is amended by adding immediately after Section 194 the following new section:

"195. 2020 AMENDMENT ACT NOT APPLICABLE TO PAPUA LNG PROJECT.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any provision of the Oil and Gas (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 11 of 2020) (the "2020 Amendment Act") -

• (a) each of Section 54, Section 56 and Section 57, as in force immediately before the 2020 Amendment Act came into effect, and subject to Section 184 and Section 185 as continued in force by paragraph (c), shall apply to and in respect of any application for a petroleum development licence under clause 7.2(a)(i) of the Papua LNG Project Gas Agreement dated 9 April 2019; and
• (b) each of Section 54, Section 56 and Section 57, as amended by the 2020 Amendment Act, and each of Section 56A, Section 56B, Section 56C, Section 57A, Section 57B, Section 192, Section 193 and Section 194, shall not apply to or in respect of any application for a petroleum development licence under clause 7.2(a)(i) of the Papua LNG Project Gas Agreement dated 9 April 2019; and
• (c) each of Section 184 and Section 185 of this Act, as in force immediately before the 2020 Amendment Act came into effect, shall apply to and in respect of the Papua LNG Project Gas Agreement dated 9 April 2019, and shall be taken to have continued to so apply as if the 2020 Amendment Act had not come into effect at all; and
• (d) each of Section 184 and Section 185, as amended by the 2020 Amendment Act, shall not apply to or in respect of the Papua LNG Project Gas Agreement dated 9 April 2019.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Oil and Gas (Papua LNG Project) (Amendment) Act 2021, which has been made by the National Parliament.

Clerk of the National Parliament.
23 AUG 2021

I hereby certify that the Oil and Gas (Papua LNG Project) (Amendment) Act 2021, was made by the National Parliament on 20 August 2021, by an absolute majority in accordance with the Constitution.

Speaker of the National Parliament.
23 AUG 2021