378ALicence area of cross‑boundary greenhouse gas injection licence

378A Licence area of cross‑boundary greenhouse gas injection licence

(1) If any part of the licence area of a cross‑boundary greenhouse gas injection licence is included in the Commonwealth defined offshore area, the whole of the licence area is taken, for all purposes of—

(2) Subject to subsection (3), if a cross‑boundary greenhouse gas injection licence ceases to be in force, any part of the licence area included in the offshore area is no longer taken to be included in the Commonwealth defined offshore area under subsection (1).

(3) Despite subsection (2), if a cross‑boundary greenhouse gas injection licence ceases to be in force, any identified greenhouse gas storage formation specified in the licence is taken to be included in the Commonwealth defined offshore area for the purposes of Divisions 7 and 8 of Part 3.4 of the Commonwealth Act.

(4) Nothing in this section limits the grant of the following titles in relation to any part of the licence area of a cross‑boundary greenhouse gas injection licence that but for this section would be included in the offshore area—

Division 2—Obtaining a greenhouse gas injection licence

Subdivision 1—Application for greenhouse gas injection licence by the holder of a greenhouse gas assessment permit or greenhouse gas holding lease

379 Application for greenhouse gas injection licence by greenhouse gas assessment permittee or greenhouse gas holding lessee

(a) a greenhouse gas assessment permit or greenhouse gas holding lease is in force; and

(b) one or more identified greenhouse gas storage formations are wholly situated in the permit area or lease area.

(2) If a single identified greenhouse gas storage formation extends to—

(a) only one block in the permit area or lease area; or

(b) 2 or more blocks in the permit area or lease area—

the permittee or lessee may apply to the Minister for the grant of a greenhouse gas injection licence over the block or blocks to which the identified greenhouse gas storage formation extends.

(a) 2 or more identified greenhouse gas storage formations, when considered together, extend to only one block in the permit area or lease area; and

(b) a vertical line would not pass through a point in each of those identified greenhouse gas storage formations—

the permittee or lessee may apply to the Minister for the grant of a greenhouse gas injection licence over the block to which the identified greenhouse gas storage formations extend.

(i) only one block in the permit area or lease area; or

(ii) 2 or more blocks in the permit area or lease area; and