Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Act 2019 (57 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Provisions commencing when new treaty comes into force

Part 18   Amendment of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

Division 2   Transitional provisions

134   Extension of environment plan and safety case for Bayu-Undan pipeline

Application

 

(1) This item applies in relation to Pipeline Licence WA-8-PL granted on 27 April 2001 under Division 4 of Part III of the repealed Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 (the old licence ).

Note: The old licence relates to the section of the pipeline running from the Bayu-Undan gas fields to Australia that is in the offshore area of Western Australia.

Extension of environment plan for pipeline

      

(2) An environment plan (within the meaning of section 572C of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006) in force, immediately before the commencement of this item, for an activity relating to the old licence:

(a) continues in force in relation to that activity relating to the old licence as affected by this Part; and

(b) has effect in relation to that activity relating to the pipeline licence taken under this Part to have been granted in relation to the Bayu-Undan pipeline international offshore area.

      

(3) To avoid doubt, subitem (2) does not prevent any of the following:

(a) revision of the plan;

(b) withdrawal of acceptance of the plan;

(c) end of the operation of the plan.

Extension of safety case for pipeline

      

(4) A safety case in force in relation to a facility that is the pipeline to which the old licence relates immediately before the commencement of this item:

(a) continues to be a safety case in force in relation to a facility that is the pipeline to which the old licence as affected by this Part relates; and

(b) is a safety case in force in relation to a facility that is the pipeline to which the pipeline licence taken under this Part to have been granted in relation to the Bayu-Undan pipeline international offshore area relates.

For this purpose, safety case in force in relation to a facility has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003.

      

(5) To avoid doubt, subitem (4) does not prevent any of the following:

(a) revision of the safety case;

(b) withdrawal of acceptance of the safety case.