(1) The corporation is
to prepare a schedule identifying the land on which any of the
corporation’s DBNGP system that the corporation proposes to assign under
Part 3 is located, and give the schedule to the DBNGP Land Access Minister.
(2) The land to be
identified in the schedule —
(a)
subject to paragraph (b), includes land in which the corporation holds an
estate in fee simple; but
(b) does
not include land if it could not reasonably be considered appropriate for that
land to be in the DBNGP corridor.
(3) After giving the
DBNGP Land Access Minister the schedule, the corporation may prepare and give
to the DBNGP Land Access Minister an amendment to the schedule to include
additional land, but the amendment can only be made before disposing of the
corporation’s DBNGP system that is on that land.
(4) The DBNGP Land
Access Minister is to cause notice to be published in the Gazette stating that
—
(a) land
identified in the schedule or included by the amendment becomes land in the
DBNGP corridor at the beginning of the day on which the notice is published in
the Gazette ; and
(b) the
schedule or amendment is available for inspection as specified in the notice,
and the statement
under paragraph (a) has effect.
(5) When land becomes
land in the DBNGP corridor —
(a) any
right, title, or interest that the corporation has in or over the land, other
than an estate in fee simple, passes to the DBNGP Land Access Minister;
(b)
State corridor rights pass to the DBNGP Land Access Minister in any of the
land in which the corporation holds an estate in fee simple and the estate in
fee simple becomes subject to those rights; and
(c)
rights as nearly as may be, consistently with this Act, equivalent to the
rights that, under the Energy Operators (Powers) Act 1979 , the corporation
had in respect of the land immediately before it became land in the DBNGP
corridor are given to the DBNGP Land Access Minister.
(6) The rights, title,
and interest pass to the DBNGP Land Access Minister from the corporation under
this section even though —
(a) the
DBNGP Land Access Minister is not a local authority in the sense in which that
term is used in section 33A of the Land Acquisition and Public Works Act 1902
3 ; and
(b) the
DBNGP Land Access Minister does not own or operate a pipeline.
(7) For the purpose of
correcting an omission from, or any error in, a schedule or an amendment that
was given to the DBNGP Land Access Minister, the corporation may prepare and
give to the DBNGP Land Access Minister a notice of correction, and the
correction is to be noted on the schedule or amendment that it corrects and
has effect from the time when the statement under subsection (4)(a) relating
to the schedule or amendment has or had effect.
(8) The DBNGP Land
Access Minister is to provide a copy of any notice under subsection (4), the
schedule or amendment to which it relates, and any notice of correction under
subsection (7), to —
(a) any
relevant official having responsibility for a register relating to any of the
affected land; and
(b)
anyone requesting it who pays the prescribed fee.
[Section 31 amended: No. 58 of 1999 s. 87.]