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Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act

Version of section 42 from 2002-12-31 to 2010-07-30:

The following provision is not in force.

Marginal note:Effective date of unitization order

  •  (1) Subject to subsection (2), a unitization order becomes effective on the day that the Committee determines in the order, but that day shall be not less than thirty days after the day on which the order is made.

  • Marginal note:Effective date when unit agreement or unit operating agreement varied

    (2) Where a unit agreement or unit operating agreement is varied by the Committee in a unitization order, the effective date prescribed in the order shall be a date not less than thirty days following the day the order is made, but the order becomes ineffective if, before the effective date, the applicant files with the Committee a notice withdrawing the application on behalf of the working interest owners or there are filed with the Committee statements in writing objecting to the order and signed

    • (a) in the case of the unit agreement, by

      • (i) one or more working interest owners who own in the aggregate more than twenty-five per cent of the total working interests in the area and were included within the group owning sixty-five per cent or more of the total working interests as described in subparagraph 41(2)(a)(i), and

      • (ii) one or more royalty owners who own in the aggregate more than twenty-five per cent of the total royalty interests in the unit area and were included within the group owning sixty-five per cent or more of the total royalty interests as described in subparagraph 41(2)(a)(ii); or

    • (b) in the case of the unit operating agreement, by one or more working interest owners who own in the aggregate more than twenty-five per cent of the total working interests in the unit area and were included within the group owning sixty-five per cent or more of the total working interests as described in subparagraph 41(2)(a)(i).

  • Marginal note:Revocation of order

    (3) Where a unitization order becomes ineffective under subsection (2), the Committee shall forthwith revoke the order.

  • R.S., 1985, c. O-7, s. 42
  • 1992, c. 35, s. 28(E)

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