Bill
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2020-05-15. Industry, Innovation and Science portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industry, Innovation and Science
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2020-02-11
- second reading — 2020-02-11
- third reading — 2020-02-11
- introduced — 2020-02-12
- second reading — 2020-02-12
- second reading — 2020-02-26
- second reading — 2020-05-12
- second reading — 2020-05-12
- committee — 2020-05-12
- third reading — 2020-05-12
- passed — 2020-05-12
- royal assent — 2020-05-15
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 2019-12-04.
This bill is part of a package that amends offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas laws to manage storage formations that cross state and Commonwealth boundaries, unify adjacent titles, and strengthen NOPSEMA's emergency powers.
The bill would amend the Levies Act to ensure levies apply to cross-boundary titles and that the Act binds state and territory governments, with retrospective effect.
The package would create a Cross-boundary Authority to grant titles and make the Commonwealth liable for long-term civil liability after site closure.
- Ensures levies are effectively imposed on cross-boundary greenhouse gas titles.
- Provides that the Levies Act binds the Crown in right of each state and the Northern Territory, with retrospective effect.
- Makes a technical correction to section 2 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Act 2019.
Companies holding greenhouse gas titles, state and territory governments, NOPSEMA, and the Titles Administrator.
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