Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Act 2019 (57 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Provisions commencing when new treaty comes into force

Part 18   Amendment of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

Division 2   Transitional provisions

132   Alteration of Pipeline Licence WA-8-PL to reflect new continental shelf boundary

 

(1) This item applies in relation to Pipeline Licence WA-8-PL, granted on 27 April 2001 under Division 4 of Part III of the repealed Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967.

Note: The licence relates to the section of the pipeline running from the Bayu-Undan gas field to Australia that is in the offshore area of Western Australia.

Extension of route of pipeline to new continental shelf boundary

      

(2) On and after the commencement of this item, the licence has effect as if the reference, in the description of the route of the pipeline, to "8751184mN, 280306mE" were a reference to 8754465.49 mN, 266555.28 mE.

      

(3) To avoid doubt, subitem (2) does not, except as otherwise provided by this item, affect:

(a) the continuity of the licence; or

(b) the operation of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 or the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003, or regulations or other instruments made for the purposes of either of those Acts, in relation to the licence.

      

(4) Section 708 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 does not require the Titles Administrator to cause notice to be published in the Gazette of an event relating to the licence that occurs because of this item.

Licence continues to be a prior usage right

      

(5) To avoid doubt, subitem (2):

(a) does not affect the status of the licence, for the purposes of Subdivision C of Division 4 of Part 15 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, as a usage right held by a person on 27 April 2001 in relation to seabed included in a Commonwealth reserve after that day; and

(b) does not cause that usage right to be renewed, or have its term extended, for the purposes of subsection 359(3) of that Act.

Paragraph (b) of this subitem has effect despite the second sentence of subsection 359(3) of that Act.