Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:clause:2b_4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2B cl 4
Character Range: 2131595–2133716

4  Well integrity inspections—facility

Power to enter and search
 (1) A NOPSEMA inspector may, for the purposes of a well integrity inspection, at any reasonable time during the day or night:
 (a) enter a facility at which activities to which the inspection relates are being, or have been, carried on, and do any or all of the following:
 (i) search the facility;
 (ii) inspect, examine or measure, or conduct tests concerning, the facility (including any part of the facility and any plant, substance or thing at the facility);
 (iii) take photographs of, make video recordings of, or make sketches of, the facility (including any part of the facility and any plant, substance or thing at the facility);
 (iv) inspect, take extracts from, or make copies of, any documents at the facility that the inspector is satisfied on reasonable grounds relate, or are likely to relate, to the subject matter of the inspection;
 (v) exercise the powers conferred by clause 8 in relation to the inspection;
 (vi) exercise the powers conferred by clause 9 in relation to the inspection; and
 (b) inspect the seabed and subsoil in the vicinity of the facility to which the inspection relates.

Notification of entry
 (2) Immediately on entering the facility for the purposes of the inspection, a NOPSEMA inspector must take reasonable steps to notify the purpose of the entry to:
 (a) the operator's representative at the facility; and
 (b) whichever of the following is applicable:
 (i) the titleholder's representative at the facility who is nominated for the inspection;
 (ii) if there is no titleholder's representative at the facility—the person at the facility who appears to be in overall control of the activities to which the inspection relates.
 (3) The inspector must, on being requested to do so by a person notified under subclause (2), produce for inspection by the person:
 (a) the inspector's identity card; and
 (b) a copy of NOPSEMA's written direction (if any) to conduct the inspection; and
 (c) a copy of any directions given by the CEO under section 602A in relation to the exercise of the inspector's powers.