Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) After land becomes
part of the DBNGP corridor because of section 31, the DBNGP Land Access
Minister may, by order notice of which is published in the Gazette , designate
any additional land to be in the DBNGP corridor and the notice has effect from
the beginning of the day on which it is published in the Gazette .
(2) The DBNGP Land
Access Minister can designate additional land to be in the DBNGP corridor only
if satisfied that it may be appropriate, either then or in the future, to
confer on anyone rights under section 34 in respect of the additional land.
(3) The rights
referred to in subsection (2) may be, but do not have to be, for the purposes
of a pipeline that was part of the corporation’s DBNGP system or is to
be connected to such a pipeline.
(4) Additional land
can be designated to be in the DBNGP corridor only if at some place that land
would abut other land in the DBNGP corridor.
(5) When notice of the
order designating additional land has effect, rights as nearly as may be,
consistently with this Act, equivalent to the rights that, under the
Energy Operators (Powers) Act 1979 , the corporation would have had
immediately before the effective date if the effective date had been before
the commencement of Part 6 Division 2 of the Gas Corporation (Business
Disposal) Act 1999 are given to the DBNGP Land Access Minister.
(5a) In subsection (5)
—
effective date means the day on which the
additional land becomes land in the DBNGP corridor.
(6) The DBNGP Land
Access Minister is to provide a copy of any notice of an order designating
additional land to —
(a) any
relevant official having responsibility for a register relating to any of the
additional land; and
(b)
anyone requesting it who pays the prescribed fee.
[Section 33 amended: No. 58 of 1999 s. 70 and 87.]