Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Amendment (Remittal of Fees and Levies and Other Measures) Regulations 2025 (Cth)

Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Amendment (Remittal of Fees and Levies and Other Measures) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 13 November 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Chris Bowen

Minister for Climate Change and Energy

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Amendment (Remittal of Fees and Levies and Other Measures) Regulations 2025.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	15 November 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Regulations 2022

1

Section 146

Before “For”, insert “(1)”.

2

At the end of section 146

Add:

Temporary fee reduction

1. (2)

   Despite subsection (1), the amount of the fee for dealing with an application for a research and demonstration licence made during the period of 24 months beginning on the day this subsection commences is $20,000.

2. (3)

   Despite subsection (1), the amount of the fee for dealing with an application for a transmission and infrastructure licence made during the period of 24 months beginning on the day this subsection commences is $150,000.

3

At the end of Part 11

Add:

150ATemporary remittal of unpaid levy—holders of feasibility licences

1. (1)

   This section is made for the purposes of subsection 190(2) of the Act.

2. (2)

   The total amount of offshore electricity infrastructure levy payable in respect of a feasibility licence for a 12‑month period is remitted if:

   1. (a)

      that period began before the commencement of this section; and

   2. (b)

      the levy was not paid immediately before that commencement.

3. (3)

   The total amount of offshore electricity infrastructure levy payable in respect of that licence for the next 12‑month period is remitted.

   Note: See section 5 of the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Regulations 2022 for the periods for which offshore electricity infrastructure levy must be paid by a person who is the holder of a feasibility licence.

150BTemporary remittal of levy payable on or after commencement of this section

1. (1)

   This section is made for the purposes of subsection 190(2) of the Act.

Levy imposed on holders of feasibility licences

1. (2)

   For a feasibility licence granted on or before 30 June 2027, the total amount of offshore electricity infrastructure levy payable in respect of that licence for the first 2 periods that begin on or after the commencement of this section is remitted.

   Note: See section 5 of the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Regulations 2022 for the periods for which offshore electricity infrastructure levy must be paid by a person who is the holder of a feasibility licence.

2. (3)

   Subsection (2) does not apply if the total amount of offshore electricity infrastructure levy payable in respect of the licence is remitted in accordance with section 150A.

Levy imposed on holders of research and demonstration licences

1. (4)

   For a research and demonstration licence granted on or before 30 June 2027, the total amount of offshore electricity infrastructure levy payable in respect of that licence for the first 2 periods that begin on or after the commencement of this section is remitted.

   Note: See section 7 of the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Regulations 2022 for the periods for which offshore electricity infrastructure levy must be paid by a person who is the holder of a research and demonstration licence.

Levy imposed on holders of transmission and infrastructure licences

1. (5)

   For a transmission and infrastructure licence granted on or before 30 June 2027, half of the total amount of offshore electricity infrastructure levy payable in respect of that licence for the first 2 periods that begin on or after the commencement of this section is remitted.

   Note: See section 8 of the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Regulations 2022 for the periods for which offshore electricity infrastructure levy must be paid by a person who is the holder of a transmission and infrastructure licence.

4

After section 159

Insert:

159AMeaning of offshore renewable energy infrastructure

For the purposes of paragraph 10(3)(e) of the Act, fixed or tethered infrastructure is prescribed if the infrastructure has the primary purpose of generating, obtaining, storing, transmitting or conveying one or more of the following chemicals:

1. (a)

   ammonia;

2. (b)

   hydrogen;

3. (c)

   kerosene;

4. (d)

   methanol;

whether any of those chemicals is in liquid form or in the form of a gas.

5

At the end of Part 14

Add:

166Application of amendments made by the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Amendment (Remittal of Fees and Levies and Other Measures) Regulations 2025

Section 159A of this instrument, as inserted by Schedule 1 to the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Amendment (Remittal of Fees and Levies and Other Measures) Regulations 2025, applies in relation to an application for a licence made on or after the commencement of this section.