Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act

Marginal note:Amendment of exploration licence

• 71 (1) The Regulator, subject to sections 32 to 37, and the interest owner of an exploration licence may, by agreement, amend any provision of the exploration licence in any manner not inconsistent with this Part or the regulations and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may, subject to subsection (2), amend the licence to include any other portion of the offshore area.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) The Regulator shall not amend an exploration licence to include any portion of the offshore area that, immediately prior to the inclusion, was a Crown reserve area unless the Regulator would be able to issue an interest to that interest owner in relation to that area under subsection 64(1) and a notice has been published in accordance with section 66 not later than ninety days before making the amendment, setting out the terms and conditions of the amendment.

• Marginal note:Consolidation of exploration licences

  (3) Subject to sections 32 to 37, the Regulator may, on the application of the interest owners of two or more exploration licences, consolidate those exploration licences into a single exploration licence, subject to any terms and conditions that may be agreed on by the Regulator and those interest owners.