Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE ACT 2021 - SECT 81

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a licence has been granted on the basis that an area (the first area ) is within the Commonwealth offshore area; and

  (b)   as a result of a change to the boundary of the coastal waters of a State or Territory, the first area:

  (i)   ceases to be within the Commonwealth offshore area; and

  (ii)   falls within the coastal waters of the State or Territory;

this Act applies in relation to the licence as if the first area were still within the Commonwealth offshore area.

  (2)   Subsection   (1):

  (a)   continues to apply to the first area only:

  (i)   while the licence remains in force; or

  (ii)   in relation to remediation or decommissioning in the first area after the licence ceases to be in force; and

  (b)   does not apply in relation to an extension of the end day of the licence; and

  (c)   if the licence is a feasibility licence--does not apply in relation to an application for a commercial licence in respect of the licence area.