sec.200Obligation to decommission

### sec.200 Obligation to decommission The geothermal tenure holder must ensure the geothermal well is decommissioned from use under this Act before the tenure ends or the land on which the well is located ceases to be in the tenure’s area. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units. If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 333A , to have also committed the offence. However, subsection (1) does not apply for land that, under section 189 (1) , ceases to be in a geothermal permit’s area. For subsection (1) , the geothermal well is decommissioned from use under this Act only if— it has been plugged and abandoned in the way prescribed under a regulation; and any relevant requirements under the Water Act for the decommissioning of water wells used for the geothermal well have been complied with; and the geothermal tenure holder has given the Minister of the department in which the Water Act is administered a notice in the approved form about the decommissioning. s 200 amd 2013 No. 51 s 229 sch 1 (sec.200-ssec.1) The geothermal tenure holder must ensure the geothermal well is decommissioned from use under this Act before the tenure ends or the land on which the well is located ceases to be in the tenure’s area. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units. If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 333A , to have also committed the offence. (sec.200-ssec.2) However, subsection (1) does not apply for land that, under section 189 (1) , ceases to be in a geothermal permit’s area. (sec.200-ssec.3) For subsection (1) , the geothermal well is decommissioned from use under this Act only if— it has been plugged and abandoned in the way prescribed under a regulation; and any relevant requirements under the Water Act for the decommissioning of water wells used for the geothermal well have been complied with; and the geothermal tenure holder has given the Minister of the department in which the Water Act is administered a notice in the approved form about the decommissioning. - (a) it has been plugged and abandoned in the way prescribed under a regulation; and - (b) any relevant requirements under the Water Act for the decommissioning of water wells used for the geothermal well have been complied with; and - (c) the geothermal tenure holder has given the Minister of the department in which the Water Act is administered a notice in the approved form about the decommissioning.