Bill
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2015-03-19. Industry portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industry
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-12-03
- second reading — 2014-12-03
- second reading — 2015-03-03
- second reading — 2015-03-03
- third reading — 2015-03-03
- introduced — 2015-03-04
- second reading — 2015-03-04
- second reading — 2015-03-05
- second reading — 2015-03-05
- third reading — 2015-03-05
- passed — 2015-03-05
- royal assent — 2015-03-19
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-12-03.
This bill would change how a levy law applies to certain coastal waters to avoid a constitutional problem.
The levy law would keep using the current, narrower definition of designated coastal waters rather than an expanded one being introduced in another bill.
The government says the change would create no net financial impact.
- The bill would confine the levy regime to the existing geographic area of designated coastal waters.
- The bill would prevent the levy law from automatically covering an expanded area defined in another Act.
- The bill would reduce the risk that the levy law could be found unconstitutional.
Offshore petroleum companies that pay levies to fund NOPSEMA's regulatory activities.
Sources
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