Part 3Licensing regulated activities

Part 3—Licensing regulated activities Division 1—Requirement for licence 10—Regulated activities (1) Subject to subsection (2), the following are regulated activities: (a) exploring for a regulated resource; (b) operations to establish the nature and extent of a discovery of a regulated resource, and to establish the commercial feasibility of production and the appropriate production techniques; (c) producing or processing a regulated substance; (d) utilising a natural reservoir to store a regulated substance (including in a case where a trace element naturally occurs with the regulated substance); (e) producing geothermal energy; (f) producing or generating energy from a source of geothermal energy; (g) constructing, operating, maintaining, modifying or decommissioning a transmission pipeline; (h) activities for the rehabilitation of land on account of the impact of activities under a preceding paragraph; (i) any other activity brought within the ambit of this definition by the regulations; (2) The following are not regulated activities: (a) an authorised investigation or survey under section 9A; (b) exploratory operations conducted at a height of 500m or more above the surface of the ground; (c) producing hydrogen— (i) by means of natural gas reformation; or (ii) by means of electrolysis of water; (d) processing petroleum into a refined petroleum product such as motor fuel, diesel or lubricating oils; (e) processing a regulated substance into urea, ammonia or a synthetic polymer. (3) A reference to a regulated activity includes all operations and activities reasonably necessary for, or incidental to, that activity such as (for example)— (a) physical and geophysical surveys of land (other than as authorised under section 9A); (c) the injection of water or some other substance into a natural reservoir in order to enhance production of a regulated substance; (d) forcing water or some other substance through a source of geothermal energy in order to absorb thermal energy and enable its recovery or utilisation at the surface; (e) the processing of substances recovered from a well; (f) constructing, operating, maintaining, modifying or decommissioning a facility; (i) water disposal. 11—Requirement for licence A person must not engage in a regulated activity unless the activity is authorised under this Act. Maximum penalty: $120 000.