Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Act 2008 (117 of 2008)

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to greenhouse gas storage etc.

Offshore Petroleum Act 2006

253A   Section 353 (definition of facility)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

facility means:

(a) a facility (within the meaning of Schedule 3) located in Commonwealth waters; or

(b) if there are provisions of a State or Territory PSLA that substantially correspond to Schedule 3 to this Act to the extent to which that Schedule relates to offshore petroleum operations - a vessel, structure or other thing that:

(i) is located in the designated coastal waters of the State or of the Northern Territory, as the case may be; and

(ii) would have been a facility (within the meaning of Schedule 3 to this Act) if subclauses 4(5A) to (5E) of that Schedule had not been enacted and the vessel, structure, or thing had been located in Commonwealth waters; or

(c) if there are provisions of a State or Territory PSLA that substantially correspond to Schedule 3 to this Act to the extent to which that Schedule relates to offshore greenhouse gas storage operations - a vessel, structure or other thing that:

(i) is located in the designated coastal waters of the State or of the Northern Territory, as the case may be; and

(ii) would have been a facility (within the meaning of Schedule 3 to this Act) if subclauses 4(1) to (5) of that Schedule had not been enacted and the vessel, structure, or thing had been located in Commonwealth waters.

For the purposes of paragraphs (b) and (c), assume that a reference in Schedule 3 to this Act to a pipeline licence includes a reference to a pipeline licence under a State or Territory PSLA.