Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:section:587a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 587A (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1529206–1531937

587A  Remedial directions in relation to permits, leases, licences and authorities that have wholly or partly ceased to be in force—responsible Commonwealth Minister

Scope
 (1) This section applies if any of the following permits, leases, licences or authorities (each of which is a title) cease to be in force, in whole or in part:
 (a) a petroleum exploration permit;
 (b) a petroleum retention lease;
 (c) a petroleum production licence;
 (d) an infrastructure licence;
 (e) a pipeline licence;
 (f) a petroleum special prospecting authority;
 (g) a petroleum access authority.

Direction
 (2) The responsible Commonwealth Minister may, by written notice given to a person referred to in subsection (2A), direct the person to do one or more of the following things within the period specified in the notice:
 (a) to plug or close off, to the satisfaction of the responsible Commonwealth Minister, all wells made in the vacated area by any person engaged or concerned in the operations authorised by the title;
 (b) to provide, to the satisfaction of the responsible Commonwealth Minister, for the conservation and protection of the natural resources in the vacated area;
 (c) to make good, to the satisfaction of the responsible Commonwealth Minister, any damage to the seabed or subsoil in the vacated area caused by any person engaged or concerned in the operations authorised by the title;
so long as the direction is given for the purposes of:
 (d) resource management; or
 (e) resource security.
Note: Breach of a direction may attract a criminal or civil penalty: see section 587B.
 (2A) The persons are:
 (a) if the title ceased to be in force in part:
 (i) the registered holder of the title; or
 (ii) a related body corporate of the registered holder of the title; or
 (b) if the title ceased to be in force in whole or in part:
 (i) any former registered holder of the title; or
 (ii) a person who was a related body corporate of any former registered holder of the title at the time the title was in force; or
 (iii) 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 title;
 (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