Regulatory Reform Omnibus Act 2025 (73 of 2025)
Schedule 3 Amendments to reduce regulatory burden
Part 3 Strengthening information sharing for more consistent regulatory outcomes
Division 1 Main amendments
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
20 At the end of subsection 712(2)
Add:
; or (e) for any of the following purposes:
(i) coordinating the management of, or responding to, a serious situation, relating to an identified greenhouse gas storage formation specified in a greenhouse gas injection licence, in relation to which the responsible Commonwealth Minister has given a direction under section 380;
(ii) coordinating the management of, or responding to, a significant offshore petroleum incident in relation to which NOPSEMA has given a direction in accordance with section 576B;
(iii) coordinating the management of, or responding to, a declared oil pollution emergency.
(3) If the Titles Administrator makes the information available to a person for a purpose mentioned in paragraph (2)(e), the Titles Administrator may, at any time, by written notice to the person, impose conditions in relation to:
(a) the person's use of the information; or
(b) whether, and the extent to which, the person may make the information available to any other person.
(4) A notice under subsection (3) is not a legislative instrument.
Administration of other Acts
(5) Despite subsection (2), the Titles Administrator may make the information available to an agency or authority of the Commonwealth for the purposes of the administration of one or more of the following Acts:
(a) the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999;
(b) the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981;
(c) the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021.
(6) If the Titles Administrator does so, the agency or authority must not:
(a) make the information publicly known; or
(b) make the information available to any other person (other than a Minister, a Minister of a State or a Minister of the Northern Territory).