Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 05 May 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Josh Frydenberg

Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia

Contents

1Name

This is the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2016.

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	1 July 2016.	1 July 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2011

1

Regulation 11.01 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

11.01Fees in relation to applications etc.

2

Subregulation 11.01(1B)

Omit “an application or nomination is the fee specified in Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 for the application”, substitute “an application, request or nomination is the fee specified in Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 for the application, request or nomination”.

3

Part 13 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Part 13—Application and transitional provisions

4

At the end of Part 13

Add:

Division 2—Application provision relating to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2016

13.04Application provision—Amendments made by the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2016

The amendments made to Schedule 6 of these Regulations by Schedule 1 to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2016 apply in relation to an application, nomination or request that is made on or after the day that Regulation commences.

5

Schedule 6 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Schedule 6—Application fees etc.

Note: See regulation 11.01.

1. 6

   Division 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (after the heading)

Insert:

1Application fees payable under section 256 of the Act

The following table sets out the application fees payable under section 256 of the Act.

1. 7

   Division 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (after table item 111)

Insert:

111A Variation of infrastructure licence under section 204 of the Act 7 500

1. 8

   Division 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (after the heading)

Insert:

2Application fees payable under section 516A of the Act

The following table sets out the application fees payable under section 516A of the Act.

1. 9

   Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (after the heading)

Insert:

3Application etc. fees payable under section 695L of the Act

The following table sets out the fees payable under section 695L of the Act for processing an application, request or nomination.

1. 10

   Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (table, heading to column headed “Type of application or nomination”)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Type of application, request or nomination

1. 11

   Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (before table item 117)

Insert:

116A Request for variation of a declaration of location under subsection 133(1) of the Act 7 500

1. 12

   Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 (at the end of the table)

Add:

120	Application for a consent to surrender a title under section 269 of the Act	7 500
121	Application for a declaration of a part of a geological formation as an identified greenhouse gas storage formation under section 312 of the Act	7 500
122	Application for variation of a declaration of an identified greenhouse gas storage formation under section 313 of the Act	7 500
123	Application for a greenhouse gas special authority under section 415 of the Act	7 500
124	Application for one or more of the following under item 1 of the table in subsection 436(1) of the Act in relation to a greenhouse gas assessment permit, greenhouse gas holding lease or greenhouse gas injection licence: (a) variation or suspension of any of the conditions to which the permit, lease or licence is subject; (b) exemption from compliance with any of the conditions to which the permit, lease or licence is subject	7 500
125	Application for acceptance of a field development plan under regulation 4.04	7 500
126	Application for variation of a field development plan under regulation 4.08	7 500
127	Application for permission to undertake recovery of petroleum from a petroleum pool in a licence area under regulation 4.14	7 500
128	Application for approval of the rate of recovery of petroleum from a petroleum pool in a licence area under regulation 4.18	7 500

13

Part 2 of Schedule 6 (after the heading)

Insert:

4Application fees payable under section 427 of the Act

The following table sets out the application fees payable under section 427 of the Act.

1. 14

   Amendments of listed provisions—Division 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 6

The items of the table in Division 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendment of fees payable under section 256 of the Act
Item	Table item	Omit	Substitute
1	Item 101	8 183	7 500
2	Item 102	5 220	7 500
3	Items 103 to 106	2 090	7 500
4	Item 107	5 220	7 500
5	Item 108	1 050	7 500
6	Items 109 to 111	2 090	7 500
7	Item 112	5 220	7 500
8	Item 113	1 050	7 500
9	Item 114	5 580	7 500

1. 15

   Amendments of listed provisions—Division 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 6

The items of the table in Division 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendment of fees payable under section 516A of the Act
Item	Table item	Omit	Substitute
1	Item 115	7 180	7 500
2	Item 116	2 950	7 500

1. 16

   Amendments of listed provisions—Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6

The items of the table in Division 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendment of fees payable under section 695L of the Act
Item	Table item	Omit	Substitute
1	Item 117	5 580	7 500
2	Item 118	5 340	7 500
3	Item 119	7 596	7 500

1. 17

   Amendments of listed provisions—Part 2 of Schedule 6

The items of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 6 listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendment of fees payable for greenhouse gas applications
Item	Table item	Omit	Substitute
1	Items 201 to 203	0	7 500
2	Items 204 to 206	1 835	7 500
3	Item 207	0	7 500
4	Item 208	4 590	7 500