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PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - NOTES

Notes

1 This is a compilation of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table 1a, 6. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title

Number and year

Assent

Commencement

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982

33 of 1982

27 May 1982

14 Feb 1983 (see s. 2(1))

Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 Pt. IV 7-13

12 of 1990
(as amended by No. 28 of 1994 Pt. 2) 

31 Jul 1990

1 Oct 1990 (see s. 2 and Gazette 28 Sep 1990 p. 5099)

Reprint of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 as at 24 Mar 1992 (includes amendments listed above)

Financial Administration Legislation Amendment Act 1993 s. 11

6 of 1993

27 Aug 1993

1 Jul 1993 (see s. 2(1))

Land (Titles and Traditional Usage) Act 1993 s. 45 14

21 of 1993

2 Dec 1993

2 Dec 1993 (see s. 2)

Petroleum Royalties Legislation Amendment Act 1994 Pt. 3

11 of 1994

15 Apr 1994

1 Mar 1994 (see s. 2)

Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1994 Pt. 6

28 of 1994

29 Jun 1994

22 Jul 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 22 Jul 1994 p. 3728)

Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994 s. 19

32 of 1994

29 Jun 1994

1 Oct 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Sep 1994 p. 4948)

Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1994 s. 4

73 of 1994

9 Dec 1994

9 Dec 1994 (see s. 2)

Acts Amendment and Repeal (Native Title) Act 1995 Pt. 8

52 of 1995

24 Nov 1995

9 Dec 1995 (see s. 2 and Gazette 8 Dec 1995 p. 5935)

Acts Amendment (Marine Reserves) Act 1997 Pt. 5

5 of 1997

10 Jun 1997

29 Aug 1997 (see s. 2 and Gazette 29 Aug 1997 p. 4867)

Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1997 s. 94

57 of 1997

15 Dec 1997

15 Dec 1997 (see s. 2(1))

Acts Amendment (Land Administration, Mining and Petroleum) Act 1998 Pt. 5

61 of 1998

11 Jan 1999

11 Jan 1999 (see s. 2(1))

Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Act 1998 Sch. 3 Div. 10

65 of 1998

15 Jan 1999

9 Feb 1999 (see s. 2 and Gazette 8 Feb 1999 p. 441)

Acts Amendment (Mining and Petroleum) Act 1999 Pt. 4

17 of 1999

15 Jun 1999

24 Jul 1999 (see s. 2 and Gazette 23 Jul 1999 p. 3385)

Reprint of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 as at 6 Aug 1999 (includes amendments listed above)

Acts Amendment (Australian Datum) Act 2000 s. 8

54 of 2000

28 Nov 2000

16 Dec 2000 (see s. 2 and Gazette 15 Dec 2000 p. 7201)

Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act (No. 2) 2003 Pt. 18

20 of 2003

23 Apr 2003

15 Jul 2001 (see s. 2(1) and Cwlth Gazette 13 Jul 2001 No. S285)

Criminal Code Amendment Act 2004 s. 58

4 of 2004

23 Apr 2004

21 May 2004 (see s. 2)

State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 2 Div. 97 15

55 of 2004

24 Nov 2004

1 Jan 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7130)

Petroleum Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2005 Pt. 4

13 of 2005

1 Sep 2005

28 Mar 2007 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Mar 2007 p. 1405)

Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 4

77 of 2006

21 Dec 2006

1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)

Reprint 3: The Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 as at 15 Jun 2007 (includes amendments listed above)

Petroleum Amendment Act 2007 s. 104

35 of 2007

21 Dec 2007

19 Jan 2008 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 18 Jan 2008 p. 147)

Duties Legislation Amendment Act 2008 Sch. 1 cl. 30

12 of 2008

14 Apr 2008

1 Jul 2008 (see s. 2(d))

Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 4 and 50

19 of 2010

28 Jun 2010

11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)

Petroleum and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 2010 Pt. 3 (other than s. 149, 163, 165(1)(b) (to the extent that it inserts s. 152(2)(lc)) and 169 (to the extent that it inserts Sch. 3 cl. 4))

42 of 2010

28 Oct 2010

25 May 2011 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 24 May 2011 p. 1892)

Reprint 4: The Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 as at 5 Aug 2011 (includes amendments listed above)

Personal Property Securities (Consequential Repeals and Amendments) Act 2011 Pt. 9 Div. 5

42 of 2011

4 Oct 2011

30 Jan 2012 (see s. 2(c) and Cwlth Legislative Instrument No. F2011L02397 cl. 5 registered 21 Nov 2011)

Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2011 s. 15

47 of 2011

25 Oct 2011

26 Oct 2011 (see s. 2(b))

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Amendment Act 2011

57 of 2011

30 Nov 2011

s. 1 and 2: 30 Nov 2011 (see s. 2(a));
Act other than s. 1 and 2: 1 Jan 2012 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 30 Dec 2011 p. 5537)

1a On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title

Number and year

Assent

Commencement

Petroleum and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 2010 s. 149, 163, 165(1)(b) (to the extent that it inserts s. 152(2)(lc)) and 169 (to the extent that it inserts Sch. 3 cl. 4) 4

42 of 2010

28 Oct 2010

To be proclaimed (see s. 2(b))

2 See the Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Act 1998 s. 9.

3 Repealed by the Off-shore (Application of Laws) Act 1982 s. 5.

4 On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Petroleum and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 2010 s. 149, 163, 165(1)(b) (to the extent that it inserts s. 152(2)(lc)) and 169 (to the extent that it inserts Sch. 3 cl. 4) had not come into operation. They read as follows:


149. Section 118 deleted

Delete section 118.

163. Part IVA inserted

After section 151Q insert:


Part IVA  Release of information

Division 1 — Preliminary

152A. Terms used

In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears —

applicable document means —

(a) an application made after the commencement to the Minister under this Act; or

(b) a document accompanying an application so made; or

(c) a report, return or other document relating to a block given after the commencement to the Minister under —

(i) this Act; or

(ii) regulations made for the purposes of section 123A;

commencement means the commencement of the Petroleum and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 2010 section 163;

documentary information means information contained in an applicable document;

Minister of another jurisdiction means a Minister of the Commonwealth, a Minister of another State or a Minister of the Northern Territory;

petroleum mining sample means —

(a) a core or cutting from, or a sample of, the seabed or subsoil; or

(b) a sample of petroleum recovered; or

(c) a sample of fluid recovered (other than fluid petroleum),

that has been given at any time, whether before or after the commencement, to the Minister, and includes a portion of such a core, cutting or sample.

Division 2 — Protection of confidentiality of information and samples

Subdivision 1 — Information and samples obtained by the Minister

152B. Protection of confidentiality of information obtained by the Minister

(1) This section restricts what the Minister may do with documentary information.

(2) The Minister shall not —

(a) make the information publicly known; or

(b) make the information available to a person (other than another Minister or a Minister of another jurisdiction),

unless the Minister does so —

(c) in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

(d) for the purposes of the administration of this Act.

152C. Protection of confidentiality of samples obtained by the Minister

(1) This section restricts what the Minister may do with a petroleum mining sample.

(2) The Minister shall not —

(a) make publicly known any details of the sample; or

(b) permit a person (other than another Minister or a Minister of another jurisdiction) to inspect the sample,

unless the Minister does so —

(c) in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

(d) for the purposes of the administration of this Act.

152D. Information or samples obtained by Minister can be made available to certain persons

The Minister may make documentary information or a petroleum mining sample available to another Minister or a Minister of another jurisdiction.

Subdivision 2 — Information and samples obtained by another Minister

152E. Protection of confidentiality of information obtained by another Minister

(1) This section restricts what a Minister may do with documentary information made available to that Minister under section 152D or 152G.

(2) The Minister shall not —

(a) make the information publicly known; or

(b) make the information available to a person (other than another Minister or a Minister of another jurisdiction),

unless the Minister does so —

(c) in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

(d) for the purposes of the administration of this Act.

152F. Protection of confidentiality of samples obtained by another Minister

(1) This section restricts what a Minister may do with a petroleum mining sample made available to that Minister under section 152D or 152G.

(2) The Minister shall not —

(a) make publicly known any details of the sample; or

(b) permit a person (other than another Minister or a Minister of another jurisdiction) to inspect the sample,

unless the Minister does so —

(c) in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

(d) for the purposes of the administration of this Act.

152G. Information or samples obtained by another Minister can be made available to certain persons

A Minister to whom documentary information or a petroleum mining sample is made available under section 152D or this section may make the information or sample available to another Minister or a Minister of another jurisdiction.

Subdivision 3 — Miscellaneous

152H. Fees

(1) This section applies to regulations made for the purposes of any of the following —

(a) section 152B(2)(c);

(b) section 152C(2)(c);

(c) section 152E(2)(c);

(d) section 152F(2)(c).

(2) The regulations may make provision for fees relating to —

(a) making information available to a person; or

(b) permitting a person to inspect a sample.


165. Section 152 amended

(1) In section 152(2):

(b) after paragraph (k) insert:


(lc) the responsibilities of a permittee, lessee, licensee or holder of a special prospecting authority or access authority as to authorising, or obtaining authorisation for, the release of documentary information as defined in section 152A;


169. Schedules 3 and 4 replaced

Delete Schedules 3 and 4 and insert:


Schedule 3 — Transitional provisions

[s. 153]

Division 1 — Provisions for Petroleum and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 2010

4. Section 118 (release of information)

(1) This section has effect despite the deletion of section 118 by section 149 of the amending Act.

(2) Section 118 as in force immediately before it was deleted continues to apply in respect of information given to the Minister before the commencement of section 149 of the amending Act.

(3) Any regulations providing for the calculation of a fee for the purposes of a provision of section 118 as in force immediately before that section was deleted —

(a) continue in force for the purposes of that section as it continues to apply under subclause (1); and

(b) also separately continue in force on and after the commencement of section 163 of the amending Act as if they had been made for the purposes of Part IVA.

(4) Regulations as continued in force under subclause (3)(a) or (b) may, for the purposes of their application under subclause (3)(a) or (b), be amended or deleted by regulations.


5 Repealed by the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009. Now see Fair Work Act 2009 (Commonwealth).

6 The amendment in the Petroleum Safety Act 1999 s. 92 was repealed by the Petroleum Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2005 s. 51 before the amendment purported to come into operation.

7 The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 191(2) (as amended by the Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1994 s. 3) reads as follows:


(2) Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act —

(a) section 4 of the principal Act shall have effect in relation to the Barrow Island Pipeline and the Withnell Bay Pipeline as if —

(i) the definition of pipeline licence had been deleted and the following definition had been substituted —

pipeline licence means a licence under Part III to operate an existing pipeline;

”;

and

(ii) the following definitions had been inserted in the appropriate alphabetical positions —

existing pipeline means the Barrow Island Pipeline or the Withnell Bay Pipeline;

the Barrow Island Pipeline means the pipeline which extends from Barrow Island to an offshore mooring terminal and which is more fully described in Special lease No. 3116/3628 granted under section 116 of the Land Act 1933;

the Withnell Bay Pipeline means the pipeline which extends from the North West Shelf Development Project Treatment Plant to the Product Loading Jetty near Withnell Bay and which is the subject of Pipeline Licence PL9 granted under the Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969.

”;

(b) section 64 of the principal Act shall have effect in relation to the Barrow Island Pipeline and the Withnell Bay Pipeline as if it had been enacted in the following form —

64. Application for pipeline licence in respect of existing pipeline

(1) An application for a pipeline licence in respect of an existing pipeline shall be made in writing to the Minister by the owner of the existing pipeline.

(2) The Minister may at any time by instrument in writing served on an applicant under subsection (1) require the applicant to furnish to the Minister, within the period specified in that instrument, further information in writing in connection with his application, and, notwithstanding section 65(2), the Minister is not obliged to grant a pipeline licence to the applicant in respect of the relevant existing pipeline until that information has been furnished to him.

”;

(c) section 65 of the principal Act shall have effect in relation to the Barrow Island Pipeline and the Withnell Bay Pipeline as if it had been enacted in the following form —

65. Grant of pipeline licence in respect of the existing licence

(1) When a person makes an application under section 64, the Minister shall inform the person by instrument in writing served on the person that the Minister is prepared to grant a pipeline licence to that person in the form set out in that instrument, which form includes —

(a) the conditions to which the pipeline licence is to be subject; and

(b) in respect of the Withnell Bay Pipeline, all directions and conditions to which Pipeline Licence PL9 granted under the Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969 is subject and all terms and conditions, instruments and dealings registered under Part IV of that Act in respect of that licence,

if the person within 30 days after that service requests the Minister to grant to him a pipeline licence in that form.

(2) On receiving from the person referred to in subsection (1) a request within the period referred to in that subsection, the Minister shall, subject to section 64(2), grant to that person a licence to operate a pipeline —

(a) in respect of the existing pipeline specified; and

(b) in the form set out,

in the instrument served under that subsection on that person.

(3) If a person on whom an instrument has been served under subsection (1) does not make the request referred to in that subsection within the period referred to in that subsection, the application made by that person lapses on the expiry of that period.

”;

(d) section 66 of the principal Act shall have effect in relation to the Barrow Island Pipeline and the Withnell Bay Pipeline as if it had been enacted in the following form —

66. Rights conferred by pipeline licence

A pipeline licence, while it remains in force, authorises the pipeline licensee, subject to this Act and the regulations and to the conditions to which the pipeline licence is subject —

(a) to operate the existing pipeline to which the pipeline licence relates and its pumping stations, tank stations and valve stations specified in the pipeline licence; and

(b) to carry on such operations, to execute such works and to do all such other things in the adjacent area as are necessary for or incidental to the operation of the existing pipeline, and the pumping stations, tank stations and valve stations, referred to in paragraph (a).

”;

(e) section 67 of the principal Act shall have effect in relation to the Barrow Island Pipeline and the Withnell Bay Pipeline as if it had been enacted in the following form —

67. Term of existing pipeline licence

(1) Subject to this Part, a pipeline licence —

(a) granted otherwise than by way of renewal in respect of an existing pipeline —

(i) which is the Barrow Island Pipeline remains in force for the period of 21 years which commenced on 10 February 1988; or

(ii) which is the Withnell Bay Pipeline remains in force for the period of 21 years which commenced on 20 December 1983;

or

(b) granted by way of renewal in respect of an existing pipeline remains in force, subject to subsection (2), for a period of 21 years.

(2) If the Minister considers that, having regard to the dates of expiry of the licences that relate to the licence areas from which petroleum is conveyed by means of an existing pipeline, it is not necessary for the relevant pipeline licence to remain in force for a period of 21 years after renewal, that pipeline licence remains in force after renewal, subject to this Part, for such period of less than 21 years as the Minister determines and specifies in that pipeline licence.

”;


The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 191(3) reads as follows:


(3) In subsection (2) —

the Barrow Island Pipeline means the pipeline which extends from Barrow Island to the offshore mooring terminal and which is more fully described in Special Lease No. 3116/3628 granted under section 116 of the Land Act 1933;

the Withnell Bay Pipeline means the pipeline which extends from the North West Shelf Development Project Treatment Plant to the Product Loading Jetty near Withnell Bay and which is the subject of Pipeline Licence PL9 granted under the Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969.


8 The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 172(2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) read as follows:


(2) Where —

(a) at the commencement of this section, a nomination had been made under section 36 of the principal Act; and

(b) at that commencement, a declaration had not been made under section 37 of the principal Act as a result of the making of the nomination,

sections 36, 37 and 38 of the principal Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this section, continue to have effect in relation to that nomination and the block or blocks that would be affected by a declaration as if this Act had not been enacted.

(3) A declaration made under section 37 of the principal Act as continued in force by subsection (2) has effect, and the principal Act, as amended by this Act, applies to the declaration, as if the declaration had been made under that section as amended by this Act.

(4) A declaration in force under section 37 of the principal Act immediately before the commencement of this section has effect after that commencement as if it were a declaration under section 37 of the principal Act as amended by this Act.

(5) Where —

(a) the permittee under a permit granted before the commencement of this section applies under section 40 of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, for a licence;

(b) the location that includes the block or blocks to which the application relates was declared under section 37 of the principal Act as amended by this Act;

(c) the location consists of not more than 8 blocks;

(d) the Minister notifies the applicant in writing that, in his opinion, the number of blocks specified in the notification represents the maximum number of blocks that the applicant would have been entitled to have declared as a location instead of the block or blocks constituting the location referred to in paragraph (b) if this Act had not been enacted; and

(e) the number of blocks specified in the notification exceeds the number of blocks in the location referred to in paragraph (b),

section 40(1) of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, applies as if the first-mentioned location were constituted by the number of blocks specified in the notification referred to in paragraph (d).

(6) Where —

(a) a lessee under a lease of a block or blocks for which a permit was granted before the commencement of this section applies under section 40A of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, for a licence;

(b) the location that includes the block or blocks to which the application relates was declared under section 37 of the principal Act, as amended by this Act;

(c) the location consists of not more than 8 blocks;

(d) the Minister notifies the applicant in writing that, in his opinion, the number of blocks specified in the notification represents the maximum number of blocks that the applicant would have been entitled to have declared as a location instead of the block or blocks constituting the location referred to in paragraph (b) if this Act had not been enacted; and

(e) the number of blocks specified in the notification exceeds the number of blocks in the location referred to in paragraph (b),

section 40A(1) of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, applies as if the lease were in respect of the number of blocks specified in the notification referred to in paragraph (d).


9 The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 181(2) reads as follows:


(2) The revocation under section 46(3) of the principal Act of a declaration in respect of a location shall be deemed not to have affected the validity of a licence granted under the principal Act in respect of any block forming part of that location.


10 The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 188(2) and (3) read as follows:


(2) Notwithstanding anything in section 37 of the Interpretation Act 1984, if, in respect of a year of the term of his licence that has elapsed prior to the commencement of this section, a licensee has not complied with section 57(1) or (2) of the principal Act, the licensee is not required after that commencement to comply with that section in respect of that year and section 57(3) of the principal Act does not apply to or in relation to such a non-compliance.

(3) in subsection (2) —

licence and licensee have the respective meanings given by the principal Act.


11 The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 201(2), (3) and (4) read as follows:


(2) Section 78 of the principal Act as amended by this Act applies in relation to applications for approval of transfers of permits, licences, pipeline licences or access authorities lodged after the commencement of this section.

(3) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 78 of the principal Act effected by subsection (1), that section continues to apply in relation to applications for approval of transfers of permits, licences, pipeline licences or access authorities lodged before the commencement of this section.

(4) A transfer approved and registered under section 78 of the principal Act shall be deemed to have been approved and registered under section 78 of the principal Act as amended by this Act.


12 The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 203(2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) read as follows:


(2) Subject to this section, sections 81 and 81A of the principal Act as amended by this Act apply in relation to dealings evidenced by instruments executed after the commencement of this section.

(3) A party to an instrument to which section 81 of the principal Act applied, being an instrument that had not been approved under that section of that Act, may, if the instrument evidences a dealing —

(a) to which section 81 of the principal Act as amended by this Act would, if the instrument had been executed after the commencement of this section, apply; and

(b) that relates to a permit, licence, pipeline licence or access authority that was in existence at the time of execution of the instrument,

make an application in writing, within 12 months after the commencement of this section, to the Minister for approval of the dealing.

(4) Where —

(a) before the commencement of this section, 2 or more persons entered into a dealing relating to a permit, licence, pipeline licence or access authority that was not in existence at the time of execution of the instrument evidencing the dealing;

(b) that dealing would, if the instrument evidencing the dealing had been executed after the commencement of this section, be a dealing referred to in section 81A(1) of the principal Act as amended by this Act; and

(c) that permit, licence, pipeline licence or access authority has come, or comes, into existence,

a party to the dealing may make an application in writing within —

(d) in a case where that permit, licence, pipeline licence or access authority came into existence before the commencement of this section, 12 months after that commencement; or

(e) in any other case, 3 months after that permit, licence, pipeline licence or access authority comes into existence,

to the Minister for approval of the dealing.

(5) Section 81 of the principal Act as amended by this Act (other than subsections (5) and (6) of that section) applies to a dealing in respect of which an application is made under subsection (3) or (4) of this section.

(6) If, when the first regulations made for the purposes of section 81(4)(b) of the principal Act as amended by this Act take effect, an application for approval of a dealing has been made but the Minister has neither approved nor refused to approve the dealing —

(a) the Minister shall give to the applicant written notice that the applicant is entitled to lodge an instrument for the purpose of section 81(4)(b) of the principal Act in relation to the application;

(b) the applicant may lodge an instrument for the purpose of section 81(4)(b) of the principal Act;

(c) the application shall not be dealt with by the Minister until after the end of 30 days after the day on which notice is given for the purpose of paragraph (a); and

(d) where the applicant lodges an instrument under paragraph (b), the applicant shall lodge with the instrument 2 copies of the instrument.

(7) An instrument lodged under subsection (6) shall be taken, for the purposes of section 81(13) of the principal Act as amended by this Act, to have accompanied the application when the application was lodged.


13 The Acts Amendment (Petroleum) Act 1990 s. 218(2) and (3) read as follows:


(2) A direction in force under section 101 of the principal Act immediately before the commencement of this section shall, after that commencement, continue to apply to the person or persons to whom it applied before that commencement as if it were a direction under section 101 of the principal Act as amended by this Act.

(3) A registered holder is not required by subsection 101(2a) of the principal Act as amended by this Act to cause a copy of a direction to which subsection (2) applies to be given to another person or to cause a copy of such a direction to be exhibited at a place frequented by that other person if the direction or a copy of the direction was served, within the meaning of the principal Act, on the person before the commencement of this section.


14 The Land (Titles and Traditional Usage) Act 1993 Sch. 1 Pt. 4 cl. 5(2) reads as follows:


(2) Division 4A inserted by subsection (1) does not apply to an application for approval lodged before the commencement of this section.


15 The State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 5, the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 s. 167 and 169, and the State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 28 and 42 deal with certain transitional issues some of which may be relevant for this Act.


Defined Terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined Term Provision(s)
access authority 4
access authority area 9(1)
accident Sch. 5, cl. 3
actual supplier Sch. 5, cl. 12(2)
adjacent area 4, 5(2A), 60K(2)
amending Act 153(3), Sch. 3, cl. 1
application for a primary licence 4
application for a secondary licence 4
approved 4
area to which the surrender relates 104(5)
associated offshore place Sch. 5, cl. 3
Australian Standard 137A(4)
Australian/New Zealand Standard 137A(4)
authorisation 124A(3)
block 4
cancelled 106(1)
CEO 137A(4)
charge 81(16)
commencement day 32A(1)
Commonwealth Act 4, 11
Commonwealth instrument 6A(1)
Commonwealth licence area 9(4)
Commonwealth Minister 4
construct 4
construction 4
contract Sch. 5, cl. 3
contractor Sch. 5, cl. 3
corresponding law 4
court 137(2)
dangerous occurrence Sch. 5, cl. 3
dealing 59(10)
debenture 81(16)
Designated Authority 11
designated work group Sch. 5, cl. 3
document 4
employee Sch. 5, cl. 3
employer Sch. 5, cl. 3
equipment supplier Sch. 5, cl. 14(1)
existing pipeline Sch. 5, cl. 82(4)
explore for petroleum 19(2)
facility 4, Sch. 5, cl. 3, Sch. 5, cl. 4(9)
federal duty 145A(3)
first area 6A(3)
Gazettal day 153(1)
good oil-field practice 4
good processing and transport practice 4
graticular section 4
group member Sch. 5, cl. 3
improvement notice Sch. 5, cl. 3
infrastructure facilities 4, 6B(1)
infrastructure licence 4
infrastructure licence area 4
infrastructure licensee 4
inspection Sch. 5, cl. 3
inspector 4
interstate Minister 4
Joint Authority 4
lease 4
lease area 4
lessee 4
licence 4
licence area 4
licensee 4
listed OSH law 4
location 4
marine reserve 18A(2)
member of the workforce Sch. 5, cl. 3
native title holders 124A(3)
natural resources 4
offshore area 4
offshore petroleum operation 4
operations area 98(1)
operative day 153(5)
operator 98(1), Sch. 5, cl. 3
operator’s representative Sch. 5, cl. 3, 5, cl. 5(1)
original licence 51(1)
ostensible supplier Sch. 5, cl. 12(2)
other licence area 9(6)
own Sch. 5, cl. 3
partly cancelled 4
partly determined 4
permit 4
permit area 4
permittee 4
petroleum 4
petroleum mining instrument 6A(1)
petroleum pool 4
petroleum title 112(13)
pipeline 4
pipeline licence 4, Sch. 5, cl. 82(4)
pipeline licensee 4
pipeline operator under the Commonwealth Act
or a corresponding law 64(5), 65(13)
place 4
plant Sch. 5, cl. 3
premises Sch. 5, cl. 3
prescribed occupational safety and health laws 15A(3)
primary entitlement 4
primary licence 4
prohibition notice Sch. 5, cl. 3
proposed facility Sch. 5, cl. 3
proposed infrastructure licence 60D(1)
pumping station 4
recovery Sch. 5, cl. 3
register 4
registered holder 4
registered organisation Sch. 5, cl. 3
Registration Fees Act 4
regulated business premises Sch. 5, cl. 3
regulations 4, Sch. 5, cl. 3
relevant person Sch. 5, cl. 7
relinquished area 4
responsible person Sch. 5, cl. 37(2), 5, cl. 61(1)
reviewing authority Sch. 5, cl. 22(5), 5, cl. 65(10)
royalty period 4
royalty value 4
safety zone 119(1)
scheduled area 4
second area 6A(5)
secondary licence 4
secondary line 4
special prospecting authority 4
structure 124B(2)
supervisor Sch. 5, cl. 43(1)
tank station 4
terminal station 4
territorial sea 4
the Barrow Island Pipeline Sch. 5, cl. 82(4)
the Withnell Bay Pipeline Sch. 5, cl. 82(4)
this Act 106(1), 126(4)
this Part 106(1)
this Schedule Sch. 5, cl. 82(4)
title 74J, 138A(5)
transitional matter 153(1)
transitional regulations 153(1)
Tribunal Sch. 5, cl. 3
unit development 59(1)
unused area 38CA(1)
valve station 4
vessel 4
water line 4
well 4
wholly cancelled 4
wholly determined 4
work Sch. 5, cl. 3
work group employer Sch. 5, cl. 3
workforce representative Sch. 5, cl. 3
workplace Sch. 5, cl. 3




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