Section 5: Offences
consolidated text (as at 2005). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
5. Offences
(1) No person shall, except in pursuance of a prospecting licence or a
mining lease, prospect or mine for petroleum.
(2) Any person acting in breach of this section shall commit an offence
and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than 1,000 rupees for
each day on which the offence continues or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 3 years and, in addition, any petroleum obtained by, and any machinery, equipment, vehicle, ship or aircraft and any device used in, the
commission of the offence shall be forfeited to the State.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to a person who, in
the course of lawful boring for water or of other lawful operations, sets petroleum free.
[S. 5 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]