4Application etc.

4 Application etc. (1) Nothing in this Act requires a person to hold a licence in respect of: (a) a pipeline constructed or to be constructed under an Act, other than this Act; (b) subject to section 15A(5), a pipeline constructed and in operation before 11 August 1982; (c) a pipeline constructed or to be constructed on land used for residential, business, agricultural, commercial or industrial purposes, designed for use solely for the residential, business, agricultural, commercial or industrial purposes carried on on that land and situated wholly within the boundaries of that land; (d) a pipeline of a class specified for the purpose of this paragraph by the Minister by notice in the Gazette, constructed or to be constructed for the conveyance of dangerous goods within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods Act 1998; or (e) a pipeline constructed or to be constructed: (i) for the conveyance of an energy-producing hydro- carbon from a well-head to a tank or a separator or for the collection of an energy-producing hydro-carbon within the area in which it is produced or recovered; (ii) for returning an energy-producing hydro-carbon to a natural reservoir; (iii) for conveying an energy-producing hydro-carbon for use for the purposes of exploration operations or operations for the recovery of an energy-producing hydro-carbon; or (iv) for conveying an energy-producing hydro-carbon that is to be flared or vented, but nothing in this section prevents a person from making an application under this Act in respect of such a pipeline or from being granted and holding a permit or licence in respect of the construction or operation of such a pipeline. (1A) Subject to subsection (1B), the Dangerous Goods Act 1998 does not apply to or in relation to a pipeline in respect of which a licence under this Act is in force or to a substance conveyed by such a pipeline while it is being so conveyed.

Energy Pipelines Act 1981 7 (1B) Nothing in subsection (1A) exempts a person from the need to comply with the Dangerous Goods Act 1998 in relation to the storage, conveyance or use of dangerous goods, within the meaning of that Act, in or in connection with the construction, maintenance or repair of a pipeline referred to in that subsection. (2) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declared a pipeline, or a pipeline of a class, specified in the notice, to be a pipeline or pipelines in respect of which a licence is not required. (3) This Act applies to and in relation to Aboriginal land, within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 of the Commonwealth, to the extent that it is capable of so applying.