Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:section:586a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 586A (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1520225–1522972

586A  Remedial directions in relation to permits, leases and licences that are in force—responsible Commonwealth Minister

Scope
 (1) This section applies to:
 (a) a petroleum exploration permit; or
 (b) a petroleum retention lease; or
 (c) a petroleum production licence; or
 (d) an infrastructure licence; or
 (e) a pipeline licence.

Direction
 (2) The responsible Commonwealth Minister may, by written notice given to a person referred to in subsection (2A), direct the person to do any or all of the following things within the period specified in the notice:
 (a) to plug or close off, to the satisfaction of the responsible Commonwealth Minister, all wells made in the title area by any person engaged or concerned in the operations authorised by the permit, lease or licence;
 (b) to provide, to the satisfaction of the responsible Commonwealth Minister, for the conservation and protection of the natural resources in the title area;
 (c) to make good, to the satisfaction of the responsible Commonwealth Minister, any damage to the seabed or subsoil in the title area caused by any person engaged or concerned in those operations;
so long as the direction is given for a purpose that relates to:
 (d) resource management; or
 (e) resource security.
Note 1: For title area, see subsection (7).
Note 2: For variation and revocation, see subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
Note 3: Breach of a direction may attract a criminal or civil penalty: see section 587B.
 (2A) The persons are:
 (a) the registered holder of the permit, lease or licence; or
 (b) a related body corporate of the registered holder of the permit, lease or licence; or
 (c) any former registered holder of the permit, lease or licence; or
 (d) a person who was a related body corporate of any former registered holder of the permit, lease or licence at the time the permit, lease or licence was in force; or
 (e) a person to whom a determination under subsection (2B) applies.
 (2B) The responsible Commonwealth Minister may make a written determination that this subsection applies to a person if, having regard to the following matters, the responsible Commonwealth Minister is satisfied on reasonable grounds that it is appropriate to do so:
 (a) whether the person is capable of significantly benefiting financially, or has significantly benefited financially, from the operations authorised by the permit, lease or licence;
 (b) whether the person is, or has been at any time, in a position to influence the way in which, or the extent to which, a person is complying, or has complied, with the person's obligations under this Act;
 (c) whether the person acts or acted jointly with the registered holder, or a former holder, of the permit, lease