Queensland Consolidated Acts

GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2009 - SECT 252

252 Obligation to decommission pipelines on cessation or reduction of tenure

(1) The holder of a GHG tenure must before the decommissioning day, decommission in the way prescribed under a regulation any pipeline in the tenure’s area.

(2) However, subsection (1) —

(a) does not apply if the pipeline was constructed or operated under another GHG tenure or a petroleum authority; and

(b) ceases to apply if the operation of the pipeline becomes an authorised activity for another GHG tenure or a petroleum authority.

(3) Also, subsection (1) does not apply for a pipeline if—

(a) the pipeline was constructed or operated under a pipeline licence; and

(b) the licence is under the P&G Act , surrendered or otherwise ends for the purpose of the pipelines the subject of the licence becoming the subject of another pipeline licence.

(4) In this section—

"decommissioning day" means the latest of the following days—

(a) the earlier of the following—

(i) the day the GHG tenure ends;

(ii) the day the land ceases to be in the GHG tenure’s area;

(b) if before the day provided for under paragraph (a) , the Minister fixes a day—that day;

(c) if before a day fixed under paragraph (b) , the Minister fixes a later day—that day.