Petroleum Act 1984

Subject to section 82, where a person is given the right to occupy land as a permittee or licensee, he shall have, for himself, his employees, agents and contractors, a right to construct a road or carry out other work to ensure access to the exploration permit or licence area by the shortest practicable route to a road, within the meaning of the Control of Roads Act 1953, a railway line, the sea or a waterway.

For the purpose of constructing a road or carrying out work to ensure access to an exploration permit or licence area, the permittee or licensee as the case may be may enter land with such machinery, equipment and workmen as is or are necessary to mark out and construct the road or carry out the work.