Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulations 2024 (Cth)

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulations 2024

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: 7 November 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Madeleine King

Minister for Resources

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulations 2024.

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 January 2025.	1 January 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1AmendmentsPart 1Main amendments

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

1. 1

   Clause 1 of Schedule 6 (table items 101 to 104, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “18,000”.

1. 2

   Clause 1 of Schedule 6 (table items 105 to 111A, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “25,500”.

1. 3

   Clause 1 of Schedule 6 (table items 112 and 113, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “18,000”.

1. 4

   Clause 1 of Schedule 6 (table item 114, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “10,000”.

1. 5

   Clause 2 of Schedule 6 (table items 115 and 116, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “10,000”.

1. 6

   Clause 2 of Schedule 6 (at the end of the table)

Add:

116AAA Approval of a dealing relating to a title that may come into existence in the future under section 498 of the Act 10,000

1. 7

   Clause 2A of Schedule 6 (table item 116AA, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “10,000”.

1. 8

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table item 116A, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “25,500”.

1. 9

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table item 117, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “10,000”.

1. 10

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table item 118, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “18,000”.

1. 11

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table item 119, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “25,500”.

1. 12

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table item 120, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “18,000”.

13

Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (after table item 120)

Insert:

120A Application for approval to carry out one or more key greenhouse gas operations under a greenhouse gas assessment permit under section 292 or 292A of the Act 18,000

1. 14

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table items 121 and 122, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “40,000”.

15

Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (after table item 122)

122A Application for approval to carry out one or more key greenhouse gas operations under a greenhouse gas holding lease under section 321 or 321A of the Act 18,000

1. 16

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table item 123, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “10,000”.

1. 17

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table items 124 to 124B, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “18,000”.

1. 18

   Clause 3 of Schedule 6 (table items 125 to 128, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “25,500”.

1. 19

   Clause 4 of Schedule 6 (table items 201 to 203, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “18,000”.

1. 20

   Clause 4 of Schedule 6 (table items 204 and 205, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “25,500”.

1. 21

   Clause 4 of Schedule 6 (table item 206, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “40,000”.

22

Clause 4 of Schedule 6 (after table item 206)

Insert:

206A Variation of greenhouse gas injection licence 40,000

1. 23

   Clause 4 of Schedule 6 (table item 207, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “10,000”.

1. 24

   Clause 4 of Schedule 6 (table item 208, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “18,000”.

1. 25

   Clause 5 of Schedule 6 (table items 209 to 211, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “8 250”, substitute “10,000”.

Part 2Application provision

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

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At the end of Part 13

Add:

Division 3—Application provision relating to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulations 2024

13.05Application provision—amendments made by the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulations 2024

The amendments of Schedule 6 to this instrument, made by the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Fees) Regulations 2024, apply in relation to an application, request or nomination (as the case requires) made on or after the day on which this regulation commences.