Victorian Current Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 224

    (1)     A pipeline licensee may apply to the Minister for the variation by the Minister of the licence.

    (2)     An application under this section must—

        (a)     be accompanied by details of the proposed variation; and

        (b)     specify the reasons for the proposed variation.

Notes

1     Part 2.10 contains additional provisions about application procedures.

2     Section 252 requires the application to be accompanied by an application fee.

3     Section 254 enables the Minister to require the applicant to give further information.

    (3)     When notice of an application under this section is published in the Government Gazette, the notice must specify a period within which a person may make a written submission to the Minister about the application.

Note

For publication in the Government Gazette of notice of the application, see section 731.

    (4)     After considering any submissions made to the Minister under subsection (3), the Minister may, by written notice given to the applicant—

        (a)     vary the pipeline licence to such extent as the Minister thinks necessary; or

        (b)     refuse to vary the pipeline licence.

    (5)     A variation of a pipeline licence under this section takes effect on the day on which notice of the variation is published in the Government Gazette.

Note

For publication in the Government Gazette of notice of the variation, see section 731.