Bill 57 — First Session, 19Th Legislature, 28 Elizabeth Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 57 the Oil and Gas Conservation Amendment Act, 1979 (Legislature 19, Session 1)

L19 S1 4240

Alberta — Bills

1979 BILL 57 First Session, 19th Legislature, 28 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 57 THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1979 THE MINISTER OF ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES First Reading Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent Printed by the Queen ’s Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON Title: 1979 (19th, 1st) Bill 57, The Oil and Gas Conservation Amendment Act, 1979

Bill 57 BILL 57 1979 THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1979 (Assented to , 1979) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Oil and Gas Conservation Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section 5 is amended by adding the following after clause (b): (b.1) to provide for the economic, orderly and efficient development in the public interest of the oil, gas and crude bitumen resources of Alberta, 3 The following is added after

section 56: Operation 56.1 The Board may, in a declaration or order under this Part, order that all or any part of the declaration or order be effective as of a date specified in the declaration or order, 1

Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill will amend

chapter 267 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1970. 2

Section 5 presently reads: 5 The purposes of this Act are (

a) to effect the conservation of, and to prevent the waste of the oil, gas and crude bitumen resources of Alberta, (

b) to secure the observance of safe and efficient practices in the locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, completing, reworking, testing, operating and abandonment of wells and in operations for the production of oil, gas and crude bitumen, (

c) to afford each owner the opportunity of obtaining his share of the production of oil or gas from any pool or of crude bitumen from any oil sands deposit, (

d) to provide for the recording and the timely and useful dissemination of information regarding the oil, gas and crude bitumen resources of Alberta, and (

e) to control pollution above, at or below the surface in the drilling of wells and in operations for the production of oil, gas and crude bitumen and in other operations over which the Board has jurisdiction. 3 This amendment will allow the Energy Resources Conservation Board to make declarations of common carrier, common purchaser or common processor or orders relieving against the declarations to be made as of a date previous to the declaration or order but not previous to the date of application for the declaration or order. 1

and a date so specified may be previous to the date the declaration or order is made but may not be previous to the date on which the application for the declaration or order was made to the Board. 4 This Act conies into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2 Title: 1979 (19th, 1st) Bill 57, The Oil and Gas Conservation Amendment Act, 1979

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