Victorian Numbered Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE (CROSS-BOUNDARY GREENHOUSE GAS TITLES AND OTHER MATTERS) AMENDMENT ACT 2021 (NO. 26 OF 2021)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  

   PART 2--CROSS-BOUNDARY GREENHOUSE GAS TITLES

   4.      Definitions  
   5.      Significant risk of a significant adverse impact—approval of key petroleum operations  
   6.      Significant risk of a significant adverse impact—grant of petroleum production licence  
   7.      Designated agreements  
   8.      Graticulation of Earth's surface and constitution of blocks  
   9.      Administration of the Commonwealth area  
   10.     New Part 1.3A inserted  
   11.     Minister must have regard to certain matters before approving key petroleum operations  
   12.     Minister must not give approval in certain circumstances  
   13.     Declared petroleum exploration permits  
   14.     Minister must have regard to certain matters before approving key petroleum operations  
   15.     Circumstances in which approval of key petroleum operations must not be given  
   16.     Declared petroleum retention leases  
   17.     New section 151A inserted  
   18.     Minister must have regard to certain matters before approving key petroleum operations  
   19.     Minister must not give approval in certain circumstances  
   20.     Declared petroleum production licences  
   21.     Offer document  
   22.     Refusal to grant petroleum production licence  
   23.     Duration of greenhouse gas assessment permit  
   24.     New sections 296A and 296B inserted  
   25.     New Division 2A of Part 3.2 inserted  
   26.     Application for renewal of greenhouse gas assessment permit  
   27.     New section 333A inserted  
   28.     Application for greenhouse gas holding lease by the holder of a petroleum retention lease  
   29.     New section 378A inserted  
   30.     New section 418A inserted  
   31.     New section 486A inserted  
   32.     Co-existence of greenhouse gas titles and petroleum titles  
   33.     Minister may share offshore information or things with other entities  
   34.     New section 718HA inserted  
   35.     Function of expert advisory committees  

   PART 3--ROYALTIES

   36.     Royalty for petroleum not payable in certain cases  

   PART 4--TECHNICAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

           Division 1--Technical amendments

   37.     Definitions  
   38.     Relationship with other Acts  
   39.     Application for petroleum access authority  
   40.     Consultation—directions to do something outside the licence area—Part 3.4  
   41.     Consultation—directions to do something outside the licence area—Part 6.4  
   42.     References to OHS inspector substituted  
   43.     New sections 798B, 798C and 798D inserted  

           Division 2--Consequential amendments

   44.     Pipelines Act 2005  

   PART 5--REPEAL OF THIS ACT

   45.     Repeal of this Act  
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