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OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2010 - SECT 654

Interfering with offshore petroleum installations or operations

    (1)     A person must not intentionally damage—

        (a)     any structure or vessel that is in the offshore area and that is, or is to be, used in exploring for, recovering, processing, storing, preparing for transport, or transporting, petroleum; or

        (b)     any equipment on, or attached to, a structure or vessel referred to in paragraph (a).

Penalty:     Imprisonment for 10 years.

    (2)     A person must not intentionally interfere with—

        (a)     any structure or vessel that is in the offshore area and that is, or is to be, used in exploring for, recovering, processing, storing, preparing for transport, or transporting, petroleum; or

        (b)     any equipment on, or attached to, a structure or vessel referred to in paragraph (a); or

        (c)     any operations or activities being carried out, or any works being executed, on, by means of, or in connection with, a structure or vessel referred to in paragraph (a).

Penalty:     Imprisonment for 10 years.

    (3)     In this section—

"structure" means any fixed, moveable or floating structure or installation, and includes a petroleum pipeline, petroleum pumping station, petroleum tank station or petroleum valve station.

Division 2 —Greenhouse gas



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