Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person carries on operations to inject a substance into the seabed or subsoil of an offshore area; or
(b) the person carries on operations to store (whether on a permanent basis or otherwise) a substance in the seabed or subsoil of an offshore area.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the operations are:
(a) authorised by a greenhouse gas injection licence; or
(b) otherwise authorised or required by or under:
(i) this Act; or
(ii) any other law of the Commonwealth; or
(c) specified in the regulations.
Note: The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2)--see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .