Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:section:312:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 312 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 831745–834129

estimated in the application.
 (8) A variation of an application must be made in an approved manner.
 (9) A variation of an application may be made:
 (a) on the applicant's own initiative; or
 (b) at the request of the responsible Commonwealth Minister.
 (10) If an application under this section is varied, a reference in this Act to the application is a reference to the application as varied.
 (10A) The Titles Administrator must publish on the Titles Administrator's website a copy of the instrument of approval referred to in subsection (8).

Declaration
 (11) If:
 (a) an application is made under this section in relation to a part of a geological formation; and
 (b) the responsible Commonwealth Minister is satisfied that, using the fundamental suitability determinants set out in the application:
 (i) that part is an eligible greenhouse gas storage formation; and
 (ii) the estimate of the spatial extent set out in the application is a reasonable estimate of the spatial extent of the eligible greenhouse gas storage formation;
the responsible Commonwealth Minister must, by writing:
 (c) declare that part to be an identified greenhouse gas storage formation for the purposes of this Act; and
 (d) declare that, for the purposes of this Act, the spatial extent of the identified greenhouse gas storage formation is the spatial extent estimated in the application; and
 (e) declare that the fundamental suitability determinants specified in the application are the fundamental suitability determinants of the identified greenhouse gas storage formation for the purposes of this Act.
 (12) A declaration under paragraph (11)(d) must set out the estimate of the spatial extent specified in the application.
 (13) A declaration under paragraph (11)(e) must set out the fundamental suitability determinants specified in the application.
 (14) A copy of a declaration under subsection (11) must be published in the Gazette.

Refusal to make declaration
 (15) If:
 (a) an application is made under this section in relation to a part of a geological formation; and
 (b) the responsible Commonwealth Minister is not required by subsection (11) to make declarations under that subsection in relation to that part;
the responsible Commonwealth Minister must, by written notice given to the applicant, refuse to declare that part to be an identified greenhouse gas storage formation.