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GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2009 No. 3 - SECT 254

254 Monitoring reports by GHG lease holder

(1) This section applies to the holder of a GHG lease.

(2) The holder must within 2 months after each of its anniversary days give each relevant chief executive a monitoring report for the 12 months that ended on the last anniversary day.

Maximum penalty--150 penalty units.

(3) Any relevant chief executive may by notice require the holder to within 30 business days give each relevant chief executive a monitoring report for the period since--

(a) the holder last gave a monitoring report under subsection (2); or
(b) if a monitoring report has not yet been required to be given under subsection (2)--the granting of the GHG lease.

(4) The holder must comply with a notice given under subsection (3).

Maximum penalty--150 penalty units.

(5) In this section--

anniversary day, for a GHG lease, means each day that is the anniversary of the day on which it took effect.

monitoring report means a report about the expected migration pathway or pathways of GHG streams during and after injection into GHG storage reservoirs under the GHG lease.

relevant chief executive means--

(a) the chief executive of the department in which this Act is administered; or
(b) the chief executive of the department in which the Environmental Protection Act is administered; or
(c) the chief executive of the department in which the Water Act is administered.


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