Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 52(1) amended by No. 10/2010 s. 800(Sch. 6 item 12.2).
(1) Despite anything to the contrary in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2010 , a licence may permit the construction of a pipeline in the area defined as the offshore area in that Act if that construction is part of a single directional drilling operation commencing on land in Victoria that is outside the offshore area.
S. 52(2) amended by No. 10/2010 s. 800(Sch. 6 item 12.3).
(2) Despite anything to the contrary in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2010 , a licence is not required under that Act for the construction in the offshore area of any part of a pipeline that is permitted to be constructed under a licence under this Act.
S. 52(3) inserted by No. 26/2021 s. 44.
(3) Despite anything to the contrary in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 of the Commonwealth, a licence may permit the construction of a pipeline in the cross‑boundary offshore area if that construction is part of a single directional drilling operation commencing on land in Victoria that is outside the offshore area within the meaning of that Act.
S. 52(4) inserted by No. 26/2021 s. 44.
(4) Despite anything to the contrary in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 of the Commonwealth, a licence is not required under that Act for the construction in the cross‑boundary offshore area of any part of a pipeline that is permitted to be constructed under a licence under this Act.
S. 52(5) inserted by No. 26/2021 s. 44.
(5) In this section—
cross‑boundary offshore area means any part of the Commonwealth defined offshore area that but for section 296B, 333A or 378A would be included in the offshore area.