Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act
Marginal note:Voluntary pooling
30 (1) Where one or more working interest owners have leases or separately owned working interests within a spacing unit, the working interest owners and the royalty owners who own all of the interests in the spacing unit may pool their working interests and royalty interests in the spacing unit for the purpose of drilling for or producing, or both drilling for and producing, oil and gas if a copy of the pooling agreement and any amendment thereto has been filed with the Chief Conservation Officer.
Marginal note:Pooling agreement by Her Majesty
(2) The Minister may, on behalf of Her Majesty, enter into a pooling agreement on any terms and conditions that the Minister deems advisable and, despite anything in this Act, the Territorial Lands Act, the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act, the Canada Petroleum Resources Act or any regulations made under those Acts, the pooling agreement is binding on Her Majesty.
- R.S., 1985, c. O-7, s. 30
- R.S., 1985, c. 36 (2nd Supp.), s. 124
- 1991, c. 50, s. 35
- 2001, c. 4, s. 163
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