Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2025
205Requirements for making survey information available to a person
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205 Requirements for making survey information available to a person
Requirements for Titles Administrator—making survey information available to a person
(1) The Titles Administrator must not make survey information available to a person under subsection 202(1) or 204(1) unless:
(c) if paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply and that information is not covered by a notice under subsection (5) of this section:
(i) the Titles Administrator has, in writing, notified the responsible Commonwealth Minister of that person and of that information; and
(ii) the responsible Commonwealth Minister agrees to that information being made available to that person.
(2) The responsible Commonwealth Minister must:
(a) in deciding whether to agree for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(c)(ii), consider whether it is in the national interest not to make the whole or a part of that information available to that person; and
(b) in writing, notify the Titles Administrator:
(i) that the responsible Commonwealth Minister does not agree to any of that information being made available to that person; or
(ii) that the responsible Commonwealth Minister agrees to the whole of that information being made available to that person; or
(iii) that the responsible Commonwealth Minister agrees to a specified part of that information being made available to that person.
(3) The responsible Commonwealth Minister may, by notice in writing to the Titles Administrator, specify survey information that is appropriate for the Titles Administrator to make publicly known.
(4) The responsible Commonwealth Minister may, by notice in writing to the Titles Administrator, specify survey information that is appropriate for the Titles Administrator to make available to specified persons. The responsible Commonwealth Minister must not do so unless the responsible Commonwealth Minister has considered whether it is in the national interest for that information not to be made available to those persons.
(5) The responsible Commonwealth Minister may, by notice in writing to the Titles Administrator, specify survey information that is not appropriate for the Titles Administrator to make available to any person because the responsible Commonwealth Minister considers that it is in the national interest for that information not to be made available to any person.
Requirements for responsible Commonwealth Minister—making survey information available to a person
(6) The responsible Commonwealth Minister must not make survey information available to a person under subsection 202(1) or 204(1) unless:
(c) if paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply, that information is not covered by a notice under subsection (5) of this section and the person has not already requested the Titles Administrator to make that information available to that person—the responsible Commonwealth Minister has considered whether it is in the national interest not to make that information available to that person.