Canada-Newfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act (S.C. 1987, c. 3)

Marginal note:Interest not vitiated by failure to comply with call procedures

62. Where an interest has been issued, it is not vitiated by reason only of a failure to comply with any of the requirements set out in sections 58 to 61 respecting the form and content of, and time and manner of publishing, any notice required by those sections in relation to that interest.

Marginal note:Manner of publication of notices

63. Any notice required to be published by the Board pursuant to subsection 58(1), 59(2) or (4), 61(2) or 68(2) shall be published in the Canada Gazette and in any other publication the Board deems appropriate and, notwithstanding those subsections, may contain only a summary of the information required to be published and a statement that the full text thereof is available for inspection by any person on request made to the Board.

Marginal note:Regulations

64. Subject to section 7, the Governor in Council may, for the purposes of section 58, make regulations of general application in relation to the offshore area or any portion thereof, or in respect of any particular call for bids, prescribing the terms, conditions and criterion to be specified in a call for bids, the manner in which bids are to be submitted and requiring those terms and conditions and that criterion and manner to be specified in the call.

Marginal note:Rights under exploration licences

65. An exploration licence confers, with respect to the portions of the offshore area to which the licence applies,

• (a) the right to explore for, and the exclusive right to drill and test for, petroleum;

• (b) the exclusive right to develop those portions of the offshore area in order to produce petroleum; and

• (c) the exclusive right, subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Part to obtain a production licence.

Marginal note:Shares

66. A share in an exploration licence may, subject to any requirements that may be prescribed, be held with respect to a portion only of the offshore area subject to the exploration licence.

Marginal note:Terms and conditions

• 67. (1) An exploration licence shall contain such terms and conditions as may be prescribed and may contain any other terms and conditions, not inconsistent with this Part or the regulations, as may be agreed on by the Board, subject to sections 31 to 40, and the interest owner of the licence.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) Subject to section 7, the Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing terms and conditions required to be included in exploration licences issued in relation to the offshore area or any portion thereof.

Marginal note:Amendment of exploration licence

• 68. (1) The Board, subject to sections 31 to 40, and the interest owner of an exploration licence may, by agreement, amend any provision of the exploration licence in any manner not inconsistent with this Part or the regulations and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may, subject to subsection (2), amend the licence to include any other portion of the offshore area.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) The Board shall not amend an exploration licence to include any portion of the offshore area that, immediately prior to the inclusion, was a Crown reserve area unless the Board would be able to issue an interest to that interest owner in relation to that area under subsection 61(1) and a notice has been published in accordance with section 63 not later than ninety days before making the amendment, setting out the terms and conditions of the amendment.

• Marginal note:Consolidation of exploration licences

  (3) Subject to sections 31 to 40, the Board may, on the application of the interest owners of two or more exploration licences, consolidate those exploration licences into a single exploration licence, subject to any terms and conditions that may be agreed on by the Board and those interest owners.