Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00490:section:81
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00490
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 81
Character Range: 174124–175579

81  Notification requirement—natural disturbances

Scope
 (1) This section applies to an eligible offsets project if the project is:
 (a) a sequestration offsets project to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; or
 (b) a sequestration offsets project to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to avoid emissions of greenhouse gases.

Notification
 (2) The project proponent for the project must:
 (a) notify the Regulator, in writing, of:
 (i) a natural disturbance that causes a reversal of the removal; or
 (ii) a natural disturbance that is likely to cause a reversal of the removal; and
 (b) do so within 60 days after the project proponent becomes aware that the natural disturbance has happened.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a reversal unless the reversal is, under the regulations or the legislative rules, taken to be a significant reversal.

Ancillary contraventions
 (4) A person must not:
 (a) aid, abet, counsel or procure a contravention of subsection (2); or
 (b) induce, whether by threats or promises or otherwise, a contravention of subsection (2); or
 (c) be in any way, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in, or party to, a contravention of subsection (2); or
 (d) conspire with others to effect a contravention of subsection (2).

Civil penalty provisions
 (5) Subsections (2) and (4) are civil penalty provisions.
Note: Part 21 provides for pecuniary penalties for breaches of civil penalty provisions.