Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Data Sharing) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 14 December 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Matt Canavan

Minister for Resources and Northern Australia

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2011

1  Name

  This instrument is the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Amendment (Data Sharing) Regulations 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2011

1  Regulation 1.05

Insert:

Energy Department has the meaning given by subregulation 8.13A(2).

2  At the end of Division 3 of Part 8

Add:

8.13A  Release of documentary information—Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting Act 2017

 (1) The Titles Administrator may make documentary information available to an officer of the Energy Department if the Titles Administrator is satisfied that the information will enable or assist an officer of the Energy Department to perform or exercise any function or power under the Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting Act 2017.

 (2) The Energy Department is the Department administered by the Minister administering the Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting Act 2017.