Petroleum Act 1923

A lessee or holder of an authority to prospect shall not commence drilling within 60m of any of the outer boundaries of the land comprised in the lease or held under the authority to prospect, as the case may be, unless the adjoining land is not the area of a 1923 Act petroleum tenure or 2004 Act petroleum tenure.

However, this restriction shall not apply to any bore which is being drilled at the time such lease or authority to prospect of the adjoining land is granted in respect of such adjoining land.