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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Titles Administration and Other Measures) Bill 2021

2019-2020-2021

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Titles Administration and Other Measures) Bill 2021

 

No.      , 2021

 

(Industry, Science, Energy and Resources)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 , and for related purposes

   

   



Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 3

Schedule 1—Change in control of registered titleholders                              4

Part 1—Main amendments                                                                                          4

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                               4

Part 2—Consequential amendments                                                                     26

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                             26

Part 3—Application of amendments                                                                    32

Schedule 2—Trailing liability                                                                                         33

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                             33

Schedule 3—Applications and decision-making                                                 70

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                             70

Schedule 4—Information-gathering powers                                                      163

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                           163

Schedule 5—Digital readiness                                                                                      166

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                           166

Schedule 6—Other amendments                                                                                169

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                           169

Schedule 7—Repeals                                                                                                         170

Greater Sunrise Unitisation Agreement Implementation Act 2004                170

Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Greater Sunrise) Act 2007                           170

Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Act 2008          170

Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2008           170

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment Act 2016     170

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Cash Bidding) Act 2013                 170

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2015             170

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Petroleum Pools and Other Measures) Act 2017      170

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Regulatory Powers and Other Measures) Act 2014                                                                                                                                      170

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Significant Incident Directions) Act 2012                 171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Act 2013         171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Act 2015                                                                                                                            171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2015                                                                                                                                      171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulatory Levies (Consequential Amendments) Act 2011            171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulatory Levies Legislation Amendment (2011 Measures No. 1) Act 2011                                                                                                                            171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulatory Levies Legislation Amendment (2011 Measures No. 2) Act 2011                                                                                                                            171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Act 2009 171

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Act 2010 171

Offshore Petroleum (Annual Fees) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Act 2008        172

Offshore Petroleum (Registration Fees) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Act 2008               172

Offshore Petroleum (Safety Levies) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Act 2008       172

Offshore Resources Legislation Amendment (Personal Property Securities) Act 2011      172

Timor Gap Treaty (Transitional Arrangements) Act 2000                                172

 

 



A Bill for an Act to amend the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 , and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Titles Administration and Other Measures) Act 2021 .

2   Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

2.  Schedule 1

Immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 4.

 

3.  Schedule 2

A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.

However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.

 

4.  Schedule 3

A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.

However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.

 

5.  Schedule 4

The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

6.  Schedule 5

A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.

However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.

 

7.  Schedule 6

A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.

However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 18 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.

 

8.  Schedule 7

The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3   Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.