PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Oil and Gas (Budget Provisions 2000) Act 1999

No. 21 of 1999.
Certified on: 23.12.1999

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.
Royalty (Amendment of Section 159).

AN ACT
entitled
Oil and Gas (Budget Provisions 2000) Act 1999,
Being an Act to amend the Oil and Gas Act 1998,
MADE by the National Parliament to be deemed to have come into operation on 18 February 1999.
ROYALTY (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 159).
Section 159(4) of the Principal Act is repealed and is replaced with the following:-
	"(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Income Tax Act 1959, where, in a financial year, in relation to the same licence area, a person has paid ‑
	(a) royalty under this section; and
	(b) development levy under Section 160,
	the royalty paid by that person under this section shall be deemed to be income tax paid by that person in respect of its liability to income tax under the Income Tax Act 1959 on its assessable income from petroleum operations derived from the petroleum project to which the royalty relates.".
I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Oil and Gas (Budget Provisions 2000) Act 1999 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament.
I hereby certify that the Oil and Gas (Budget Provisions 2000) Act 1999 was made by the National Parliament on 7 December 1999.
Speaker of the National Parliament.