Western Australian Current Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 73

73 .         Common carrier

        (1)         The Minister may, by instrument in writing served on a pipeline licensee, direct the pipeline licensee to be a common carrier of petroleum in respect of the pipeline and thereupon the pipeline licensee is a common carrier of petroleum in respect of the pipeline.

        (2)         The Minister cannot give a direction under subsection (1) in respect of a pipeline if it is a Code pipeline as defined in the Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Law ⁴ .

        (3)         While a direction is in force under subsection (1) in respect of a pipeline it cannot become a Code pipeline for the purposes of the Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Law ⁴ .

        [Section 73 amended: No. 65 of 1998 Sch. 3 cl. 37.]