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

133   New pipeline licence for part of Bayu-Undan pipeline

Grant of new pipeline licence

 

(1) On the commencement of this item, a pipeline licence (the new licence ) is taken for all purposes to be granted under Part 2.6 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 by the Joint Authority for the Bayu-Undan pipeline international offshore area to the person who, immediately before that commencement, was the registered holder of Pipeline Licence WA-8-PL, granted on 27 April 2001 under Division 4 of Part III of the repealed Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967.

Content of new pipeline licence

      

(2) The new licence is taken to specify the Bayu-Undan pipeline international offshore area.

      

(3) The new licence is taken to specify that the design, construction, size and capacity of the pipeline to which the licence relates are based on the parameters in the following table.

      

(4) The new licence is taken to specify that the route and position of the pipeline to which the licence relates is from the downstream flange of the subsea isolation valve (the SSIV ) in the Bayu-Undan Field to the boundary of the Bayu-Undan pipeline international offshore area (the BUPIOA ) and the offshore area of Western Australia ( WA ), as described in the following table (using coordinates based on the Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA94)).

Affecting new licence

      

(5) To avoid doubt, the new licence may be terminated, varied, surrendered or cancelled, and the conditions to which it is subject may be varied, under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

      

(5A) However, the Joint Authority must not consent under section 270 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 to the surrender, in whole or in part, of the new licence unless the pipeline to which the licence relates has been removed from the surrender area to the satisfaction of NOPSEMA. This has effect despite subparagraph 270(3)(c)(ii) and subsection 270(5) of that Act.

Dealings relating to new licence

      

(6) Any dealings that:

(a) related to Pipeline Licence WA-8-PL, granted on 27 April 2001 under Division 4 of Part III of the repealed Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967; and

(b) were of a kind to which Part 4.6 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 applies; and

(c) were in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

are taken for all purposes also to be in force in relation to the new licence.

      

(7) The Titles Administrator must make an entry of each of the dealings mentioned in subsection (6) on the memorial of the new licence in the Register kept under section 469 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 for the Bayu-Undan pipeline international offshore area.

      

(8) To avoid doubt, dealings relating to the new licence because of subitem (6) may be affected by dealings occurring after the commencement of this item, subject to Part 4.6 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

Grant of new licence need not be gazetted

      

(9) Despite subitem (1), 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 the grant of the new licence.