Common use of Initial obligations of the State Clause in Contracts

Initial obligations of the State. (1) The State shall subject to the adequate protection of the environment (including flora and fauna) and the land affected (including improvements thereon) arrange for the issue of requisite authority under any one or more of (as determined by the State in its discretion): (a) section 91 of the Land Act; or (b) section 7 of the Pipelines Act; or (c) section 182 of the Land Act, to allow the Joint Venturers to enter upon Crown land within the meaning of the Land Act or the Pipelines Act as the case may be (including, if applicable, land the subject of a pastoral lease but excluding land within a Port or the DBNGP corridor) with plant and equipment to carry out all works to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes of undertaking its obligations under clause 5(1)(b)(ii). (2) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of subclause (1), section 182 of the Land Act shall apply as if the Domgas Project is a proposed public work for which the Land Act Minister is under that section authorised to take interests in land within the meaning of that section. (3) The Joint Venturers acknowledge that they shall be responsible for obtaining in a form and substance acceptable to the Minister all unconditional and irrevocable consents of each person whose consent the relevant grantor (acting with the concurrence of the Minister) requires for the grant of any requisite authority referred to in subclause (1).