Part 2: Further functions of the OGA relating to offshore petroleum Power to give sanction notices Section 42: Power of OGA to give sanction notices
Section 42 enables the OGA to give sanction notices where it considers that a person has failed to comply with a petroleum-related requirement imposed upon them.
	Subsection (3) defines the petroleum-related requirements to which sanctions can apply.
	Sanction notices include enforcement notices, financial penalty notices, revocation notices and removal of operator notices. It is these notices that impose the sanctions.
	Subsection (2) allows a single sanction notice to be given to a single person or more than one person. This is to ensure that where a petroleum-related requirement is imposed upon a consortium of persons (such as through a Joint Operating Agreement), the OGA is able to impose a sanction upon only those persons who are responsible for the failure to comply with that requirement.
	Subsection (5) states that sanction notices (other than enforcement notices) may be given in respect of breaches of duties that have been remedied at the time of giving the notice. This may apply, for example, where a person who failed to provide information and samples within a required timeframe has since supplied that information to the OGA, but the OGA nevertheless wishes to impose, say, a financial penalty in respect of the breach.
	More than one sanction notice may be given at the same time in respect of a single failure to comply with a petroleum-related requirement (subsection (6)(a)). For example, an enforcement notice may be given alongside a financial penalty.
	Subsection (6) provides that the OGA may give subsequent sanction notices in respect of the same breach only in accordance with section 54.