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12.—(1) If requested to do so by the Minister on or before the first day of any month in which this licence is in force, the Licensee shall furnish to the Minister on or before the fifteenth day of that month a return in a form from time to time approved by the Minister of the progress of the Licensee’s operations in the Exploration Area. Such return shall contain—
(a)a statement of the areas in which any geological work, including surveys by any physical or chemical means, has been carried out;
(b)the number assigned to each Well, and in the case of any Well the drilling of which was begun or the number of which was changed in that month, the site of that Well;
(c)a statement of the depth drilled in each Well; and
(d)a statement of any Petroleum, water, mines or workable seams of coal encountered in the course of those operations.
(2) Within two months after the end of each calendar year which falls wholly or partly within the period during which this licence is in force and within two months after the expiry or determination of this licence the Licensee shall furnish to the Minister an annual return in a form from time to time approved by the Minister of the operations conducted by the Licensee in the Exploration Area during that year or the period prior to such expiry or determination as the case may be together with a plan upon a scale approved by the Minister showing the situation of all Wells. The Licensee shall also indicate on that plan all works executed by the Licensee in connection with exploration activities under this licence.
(3) The Licensee shall furnish to the Minister such other information, including information in the form of maps and plans, as to progress of the Licensee’s operations in the Exploration Area as the Minister may from time to time require.
(4) The Licensee shall comply with any requests for information made in accordance with paragraph (3) either—
(a)within any time limit specified in the request; or
(b)if there is no time limit specified, within four weeks of the request.
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