2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas 

Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment 

(Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Industry) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Offshore Petroleum 

and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 

2003, and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014 

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Contents 

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

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) 

Act 2003

 

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Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Offshore Petroleum 

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and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 

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2003, and for related purposes 

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The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

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1  Short title 

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  This Act may be cited as the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse 

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Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Designated Coastal 

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Waters) Act 2014. 

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2  Commencement 

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  This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent. 

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3  Schedules 

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  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

--Amendments 

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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage 

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(Regulatory Levies) Act 2003 

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1  Section 3 (definition of coastal waters) 

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Repeal the definition. 

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2  Section 3 (definition of designated coastal waters) 

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Omit "same meaning as in Part 6.9 of the Offshore Petroleum and 

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Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006", substitute "meaning given by 

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section 3A". 

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3  Section 3 

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Insert: 

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scheduled area has the same meaning as in the Offshore Petroleum 

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and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006. 

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4  After section 3 

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Insert: 

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3A  Designated coastal waters 

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(1)  For the purposes of this Act, designated coastal waters, in relation 

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to a State or the Northern Territory, means: 

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(a)  so much of the scheduled area for that State or Territory as 

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consists of the territorial sea; and 

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(b)  any area that: 

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(i)  is within the scheduled area for that State or Territory; 

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and 

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(ii)  is on the landward side of the territorial sea; and 

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(iii)  was, immediately before the commencement of the 

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relevant State PSLA or Territory PSLA, the subject of a 

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petroleum exploration permit under the repealed 

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Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967. 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

   

 

 

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(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1), assume that the breadth of the 

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territorial sea of Australia had never been determined or declared 

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to be greater than 3 nautical miles, but had continued to be 3 

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nautical miles. 

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(3)  Paragraph (1)(b) has effect subject to subsection (4). 

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(4)  For the purposes of this Act, if (whether before or after the 

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commencement of this subsection) an area that is within the 

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designated coastal waters of a State or Territory because it is 

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described in subparagraphs (1)(b)(i), (ii) and (iii) became or 

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becomes an area that is: 

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(a)  not the subject of a petroleum exploration permit under the 

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relevant State PSLA or Territory PSLA; and 

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(b)  not the subject of a petroleum retention lease under the 

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relevant State PSLA or Territory PSLA; and 

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(c)  not the subject of a petroleum production licence under the 

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relevant State PSLA or Territory PSLA; and 

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(d)  not the subject of an application for a petroleum retention 

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lease or petroleum production licence under the relevant 

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State PSLA or Territory PSLA; 

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the area is taken to have ceased to be part of the designated coastal 

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waters of that State or Territory. 

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5  Subsection 10(5) (definition of State/Territory petroleum 

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title) 

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Before "coastal waters", insert "designated". 

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6  Subsection 10B(8) (definition of State/Territory petroleum 

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title) 

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Before "coastal waters", insert "designated". 

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7  Subsection 10D(6) (definition of State/Territory petroleum 

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title) 

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Before "coastal waters", insert "designated". 

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8  Subsection 10G(7) (definition of State/Territory title) 

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Before "coastal waters", insert "designated". 

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