Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:section:591b:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 591B (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1544756–1547443

591B  Remedial directions in relation to permits, leases and licences that are in force—NOPSEMA

Scope
 (1) This section applies to:
 (a) a greenhouse gas assessment permit; or
 (b) a greenhouse gas holding lease; or
 (c) a greenhouse gas injection licence, if no operations for the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into an identified greenhouse gas storage formation have been carried on under the licence.

Direction
 (2) NOPSEMA 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:
 (i) remove, or cause to be removed, from the title area all property brought into that area by any person engaged or concerned in the operations authorised by the permit, lease or licence; or
 (ii) make arrangements that are satisfactory to NOPSEMA in relation to that property;
 (b) to plug or close off, to the satisfaction of NOPSEMA, all wells made in the title area by any person engaged or concerned in those operations;
 (c) to provide, to the satisfaction of NOPSEMA, for the conservation and protection of the natural resources in the title area;
 (d) to make good, to the satisfaction of NOPSEMA, any damage to the seabed or subsoil in the title area caused by any person engaged or concerned in those operations.
Note 1: For title area, see subsection (7).
Note 2: For variation and revocation, see subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
 (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