658Monitoring powers of greenhouse gas project inspectors

658 Monitoring powers of greenhouse gas project inspectors

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

(2) The powers a greenhouse gas 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 greenhouse gas 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) operations relating to exploration for a potential greenhouse gas storage formation or a potential greenhouse gas injection site;

(ii) operations relating to the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into the seabed or subsoil;

(iii) operations relating to the storage of a greenhouse gas substance in the seabed or subsoil;

(iv) operations relating to the processing, compression or pre‑injection storage of a greenhouse gas substance;

(v) operations relating to the preparation of a greenhouse gas substance for transport;

(c) to inspect and test any equipment that the greenhouse gas 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 greenhouse gas 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.