Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:section:224:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 224 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 560230–562759

(4A) If:
 (a) the application is for a pipeline licence in relation to the construction, in an offshore area, of a greenhouse gas pipeline for:
 (i) the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance within a greenhouse gas injection licence area in that offshore area; or
 (ii) the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance from a place outside a greenhouse gas injection area to a place in the greenhouse gas injection licence area; and
 (b) the greenhouse gas substance is to be injected into an identified greenhouse gas storage formation that is wholly situated in the greenhouse gas injection licence area; and
 (c) the applicant is the greenhouse gas injection licensee; and
 (d) the Joint Authority is not satisfied of the matters (if any) prescribed by the regulations;
the Joint Authority may, by written notice given to the applicant, refuse to grant the pipeline licence.
Note: Consultation procedures apply—see section 262.

Application by a person who is not a greenhouse gas injection licensee
 (5) If:
 (a) the application is for a pipeline licence in relation to the construction, in an offshore area, of a greenhouse gas pipeline for:
 (i) the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance within a greenhouse gas injection licence area in that offshore area; or
 (ii) the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance from a place outside a greenhouse gas injection licence area to a place in the greenhouse gas injection licence area; and
 (b) the greenhouse gas substance is to be injected into an identified greenhouse gas storage formation that is wholly situated in the greenhouse gas injection licence area; and
 (c) the applicant is not the greenhouse gas injection licensee;
the Joint Authority may, by written notice given to the applicant, refuse to grant the pipeline licence.
 (6) Without limiting subsection (5), in deciding whether to refuse to grant the pipeline licence, the Joint Authority must have regard to the matters (if any) prescribed by the regulations.

Refusal on other grounds
 (7) The Joint Authority must, by written notice given to the applicant, refuse to grant the pipeline licence if the Joint Authority is not satisfied that the technical advice and financial resources available to the applicant are sufficient to:
 (a) carry out the operations and works that will be authorised by the licence; and
 (b) discharge the obligations that will be imposed under this Act, or a legislative instrument under this Act, in relation to the licence.
Note: Consultation procedures apply—see section 262.