Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Act 2013 (Cth)

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Act 2013

No. 142, 2013

An Act to amend the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003, and for related purposes

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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Act 2013

No. 142, 2013

An Act to amend the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003, and for related purposes

[Assented to 13 December 2013]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Act 2013.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this Act 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
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	13 December 2013
2. Schedule 1	At the same time as the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Cash Bidding) Act 2013 commences. However, if that Act does not commence, the provision(s) do not commence at all.	14 December 2013

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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

1. (2)

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

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

1

Subsection 10E(7)

Insert:

cash‑bid petroleum exploration permit has the same meaning as in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

2

Subsection 10E(7) (after paragraph (a) of the definition of eligible title)

Insert:

1. (aa)

   a cash‑bid petroleum exploration permit; or

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 20 November 2013

Senate on 5 December 2013]

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