Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2015 (Cth)

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2015

No. 34, 2015

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 (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2015

No. 34, 2015

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

[Assented to 2 April 2015]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2015.

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
Provisions	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.	2 April 2015
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	At the same time as Division 2 of Part 4 of Schedule 1 to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2015 commences.	3 April 2015
3 Schedule 1, Part 2	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	3 April 2015

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.

3Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Part 1Boundary‑change petroleum exploration permits

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

1

Subsection 10E(7)

Insert:

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

2

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

Insert:

1. (ba)

   a boundary‑change petroleum exploration permit; or

Part 2NOPSEMA inspectors

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

3

Section 3

Insert:

NOPSEMA inspector has the same meaning as in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

4

Section 3 (definition of OHS inspector)

Repeal the definition.

5

Paragraph 5(1)(b)

Omit “an OHS inspector”, substitute “a NOPSEMA inspector”.

6

Paragraph 6(1)(b)

Omit “an OHS inspector”, substitute “a NOPSEMA inspector”.

7

Paragraphs 9(1)(b) and (g)

Omit “an OHS inspector”, substitute “a NOPSEMA inspector”.

8

Paragraphs 10(1)(b) and (g)

Omit “an OHS inspector”, substitute “a NOPSEMA inspector”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 February 2015

Senate on 4 March 2015]

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