Bill
Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Bill 2019
passed, as at 2019-08-07. Resources and Northern Australia portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Resources and Northern Australia
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-04
- second reading — 2019-07-04
- second reading — 2019-07-25
- second reading — 2019-07-25
- committee — 2019-07-25
- third reading — 2019-07-25
- third reading — 2019-07-25
- third reading — 2019-07-25
- introduced — 2019-07-29
- second reading — 2019-07-29
- second reading — 2019-07-29
- second reading — 2019-07-29
- third reading — 2019-07-29
- passed — 2019-07-29
- royal assent — 2019-08-07
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 2019-07-04.
This bill is part of a package that partially implements a 2018 treaty establishing permanent maritime boundaries and a shared petroleum development regime between Australia and Timor-Leste.
The bill would amend the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 to create a special regime area for the Greater Sunrise gas fields, where Australia and Timor-Leste jointly exercise sovereign rights and manage petroleum activities.
The treaty's special regime will remain in force until the Greater Sunrise fields are commercially depleted, and the bill provides for the regime area to end when the regime ceases.
- Amends Commonwealth legislation to reflect new permanent maritime boundaries.
- Establishes the Greater Sunrise special regime area in Australian law.
- Gives domestic effect to treaty provisions on joint governance, environmental protection, vessels, and criminal law matters.
- Allows Timor-Leste's petroleum authority to act as the Designated Authority for day-to-day regulation.
- Creates a Governance Board with one Australian and two Timorese representatives.
- Establishes a Dispute Resolution Committee to hear matters referred by the Designated Authority, Governance Board, or Greater Sunrise Contractor.
Australia and Timor-Leste, their governments, and entities involved in petroleum development in the Timor Sea, particularly the Greater Sunrise fields.
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