2.1(1)The Minister may exempt from the application of section 2 any lessee whose lease includes a lease area, in whole or in part, that is located in the sections identified by the numbers 25 to 79 of grid area 2425 in the New Brunswick Standard Oil and Natural Gas Grid Map as set forth in Schedule A of New Brunswick Regulation 86-190 under the Act.

2.1(2)If a portion of a lease area referred to in subsection (1) is located outside of the sections referred to in that subsection, the exemption applies only to the portion of the lease area located in the sections referred to in that subsection.