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

25   At the end of subsection 716(3)

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; 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.

(4) If a recipient Minister or second recipient Minister permits a person to inspect the sample under paragraph (2)(e) or (3)(e), the relevant recipient Minister may, at any time, by written notice to the person, impose conditions in relation to:

(a) the person's use of the sample; or

(b) whether, and the extent to which, the person may permit any other person to inspect the sample.

(5) A notice under subsection (4) is not a legislative instrument.