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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 787

Exercise of Australia's rights under international law--injection and storage of greenhouse gas substances in the continental shelf

    The regulations may, to the extent to which this Act does not do so, provide for the exercise of Australia's rights, and compliance with Australia's obligations, under international law in relation to:

  (a)   the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into a part of a geological formation, where that part   is wholly situated within the continental shelf (whether in an offshore area or not); and

  (b)   the storage of a greenhouse gas substance in a part of a geological formation, where that part   is wholly situated within the continental shelf (whether in an offshore area or not).


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