Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsApplication by petroleum production licensee
(1) If:
(a) a person applies for a pipeline licence in relation to the construction, in an offshore area, of a greenhouse gas pipeline for:
(i) the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance within a petroleum production licence area in that offshore area; or
(ii) the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance from a place outside a petroleum production licence area to a place in the petroleum production licence area; and
(b) either:
(i) if subparagraph (a)(i) applies--the greenhouse gas substance is a by - product of petroleum recovery operations carried on under the petroleum production licence; or
(ii) if subparagraph (a)(ii) applies--the greenhouse gas substance is to be injected into the seabed or subsoil for the purpose of enhancing petroleum recovery operations carried on under the petroleum production licence; and
(c) the person is not the petroleum production licensee;
the petroleum production licensee may, within:
(d) 90 days after the publication in the Gazette of notice of the application; or
(e) such longer period, not more than 180 days, as the Joint Authority allows;
apply under section 217 for such a pipeline licence and, in the application, request that the application mentioned in the Gazette notice be rejected.
Note: For publication in the Gazette of notice of the application, see section 708.
Rejection of application by other person
(2) If a pipeline licence is granted to the petroleum production licensee as a result of an application covered by subsection (1), the Joint Authority must, by written notice given to the person mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), reject the application mentioned in paragraph (1)(d).
Extension of time
(3) The Joint Authority may allow a longer period under paragraph (1)(e) only on written application made by the petroleum production licensee within the period of 90 days mentioned in paragraph (1)(d).