Petroleum Act 1936

The lessee of every petroleum lease in respect of which royalties are payable shall, during the first week of every month, forward to the Under Secretary for Mines a return in the prescribed form showing the amount of crude petroleum casinghead petroleum spirit and natural gas obtained from such lease and sold during the last preceding month, together with such other particulars as may be necessary to ascertain the amount of the royalty payable, together with the amount due as royalty thereon.

[Section 72 amended: No. 8 of 1940 s. 34.]

73. Officers may examine books, etc.

Any officer appointed for that purpose by the Minister shall at any reasonable time have access to the books and accounts of such petroleum lease, and may examine the same, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of royalty payable in respect of the petroleum obtained from such lease.

[Section 73 amended: No. 8 of 1940 s. 35; No. 12 of 1951 s. 13.]