Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 287A

  (1)   The following provisions:

  (a)   this Chapter and regulations made for the purposes of this Chapter;

  (b)   the remaining provisions of this Act and the regulations, so far as they relate to:

  (i)   this Chapter; or

  (ii)   exploring for a potential greenhouse gas storage formation; or

  (iii)   exploring for a potential greenhouse gas injection site; or

  (iv)   the injection of a greenhouse gas substance; or

  (v)   the storage of a greenhouse gas substance;

apply, and are taken always to have applied, to the following bodies politic:

  (c)   a State;

  (d)   the Northern Territory.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) has effect in addition to section   35.

  (3)   This Act does not make:

  (a)   a State; or

  (b)   the Northern Territory;

liable to a pecuniary penalty or to be prosecuted for an offence.

  (4)   The protection in subsection   (3) does not apply to an authority of:

  (a)   a State; or

  (b)   the Northern Territory.