Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00096:clause:3_63
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00096
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 63
Character Range: 154393–155582

63  After subsection 224(2)
Insert:
 (2A) 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 petroleum production licence area in that offshore area; or
 (ii) the conveyance of a greenhouse gas substance from a place outside a petroleum production licence area to a place in the petroleum production licence area; and
 (b) either:
 (i) if subparagraph (a)(i) applies—the greenhouse gas substance is a by‑product of petroleum recovery operations carried on under the petroleum production licence; or
 (ii) if subparagraph (a)(ii) applies—the greenhouse gas substance is to be injected into the seabed or subsoil for the purpose of enhancing petroleum recovery operations carried on under the petroleum production licence; and
 (c) the applicant is the petroleum production 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.