649Monitoring powers of petroleum project inspectors

649 Monitoring powers of petroleum project inspectors

(1) For the purposes of this Act and the regulations, a petroleum project inspector may, at all reasonable times and on production of the petroleum project inspector's identity card, exercise the powers conferred by subsection (2).

(2) The powers a petroleum project inspector may exercise under this section are as follows—

(a) to have access to any part of the offshore area;

(b) to have access to any structure, vessel, aircraft or building in the offshore area that the petroleum project inspector has reasonable grounds to believe has been, is being or is to be used in connection with any of the following operations in the offshore area—

(i) petroleum exploration operations;

(ii) petroleum recovery operations;

S. 649(2)(b)(iii) amended by No. 42/2024 s. 29.

(iii) operations relating to the processing or storage of petroleum, including underground petroleum storage;

(iv) operations relating to the preparation of petroleum for transport;

(v) operations connected with the construction or operation of a pipeline;

(c) to inspect and test any equipment that the petroleum project inspector has reasonable grounds to believe has been, is being or is to be used in the offshore area in connection with any of those operations;

(d) to enter any structure, vessel, aircraft, building or place that is in—

(i) the offshore area; or

(ii) the State—

and in which the petroleum project inspector has reasonable grounds to believe there are any documents relating to any of those operations, and to inspect, take extracts from and make copies of any of those documents.