Footnote *17 These Regulations come into force on the day on which section 74 of the Energy Safety and Security Act comes into force but if they are registered after that day, they come into force on the day on which they are registered.
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16 (1) Section 3 does not apply to a project that relates to development, production, abandonment, exploratory drilling or multi-year or complex seismic programs if the applicant or the operator has paid 100% of the Board’s estimated costs for the project for the fiscal year in which these Regulations come into force.
(2) All existing projects relating to development, production, abandonment, exploratory drilling or multi-year or complex seismic programs that are under the Board’s regulatory authority before these Regulations come into force and that do not have a regulatory activity plan are considered to have been previously under a regulatory activity plan for the purposes of section 3.
15 For the purposes of section 30.3 of the Act, the fees and charges obtained in accordance with these Regulations must be remitted on a quarterly basis subject to the Board’s operational requirements.
1 The following definitions apply in these Regulations.
