Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If the responsible Commonwealth Minister is satisfied that a person proposes to construct a petroleum pipeline for conveying petroleum recovered from the Greater Sunrise special regime area to a place in Australia, the Minister may, by notifiable instrument, declare an area, through which the pipeline is proposed to extend, as the Greater Sunrise pipeline international offshore area.
(2) The area must:
(a) consist at least partly of an area in the Greater Sunrise special regime area; and
(b) adjoin (but not include any of) an offshore area of a State or Territory.
Note: Depending on the proposed route of the pipeline, the area may cover part of the continental shelf of Timor - Leste between an edge of the Greater Sunrise special regime area and the offshore area of a State or Territory.