1Industry Research and Development (Offshore Decommissioning Directorate Program) Instrument 2024

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Industry Research and Development (Offshore Decommissioning Directorate Program) Instrument 2024

 

I, Madeleine King, Minister for Resources, make the following instrument.

Dated: 12 September 2024

Madeleine King

Minister for Resources

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Prescribed program

6  Specified legislative power

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Offshore Decommissioning Directorate Program) Instrument 2024.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

• Commencement information
• Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
• Provisions Commencement Date/Details
• 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

decommissioning includes all activities associated with or connected to:

    (a) the disconnection, removal and disposal of infrastructure from an offshore area that was previously used to support oil and gas operations;

 (b) the suspension, plugging (whether temporary or permanent) and abandonment of wells and flushing of associated pipelines;