Div 8Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969

Division 8 — Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969

38.Act applies to DBNGP

(1)Any pipeline in the privatised DBNGP system is a pipeline for the purposes of the principal Act despite the exceptions to the definition of pipeline in that Act.

(2)At the pipeline transfer time —

(a)the DBNGP owner, as defined in section 46 of this Act, becomes, and is to be registered as, the holder of a licence granted under the principal Act the term, conditions, and other details of which are as determined by the Minister responsible for the administration of the principal Act; and

(b)consent to the operation of the pipelines in the privatised DBNGP system is to be regarded as having been given under section 36 of the principal Act.

(3)Subsection (2)(b) does not remove the requirement for consent under section 36 of the principal Act to be obtained in any other circumstance in which the principal Act requires it.

39.Section 7 (power of Minister to authorise entry)

The power given by section 7(1) of the principal Act to the Minister referred to in that provision is not to be exercised in respect of land in the DBNGP corridor, as defined in section 27 of this Act, until the DBNGP Land Access Minister, as defined in that section, has been consulted.

40.Section 8 (application for licence)

Obtaining rights under section 34 of this Act in respect of land or being approved under subsection (3) of that section as the nominee of the holder of those rights is to be regarded, for the purposes of section 8(1)(f) of the principal Act, as acquiring the land.

41.Section 12 (conditions of licence)

For the purposes of section 12(3) of the principal Act —

(a)rights conferred under section 34 of this Act in respect of land are capable of being a sufficient authority over the land; and

(b)becoming the holder of those rights or the holder’s nominee approved under section 34(3) of this Act is a sufficient acquisition of those rights.

42.Section 21 (access provisions)

Section 21 of the principal Act does not apply to the privatised DBNGP system.

43.Section 27 (removal of property)

(1)For the purpose of enabling a direction to be given in an instrument under section 27 of the principal Act to a licence holder, property of the licence holder or a nominee of the licence holder approved under section 34(3) of this Act that —

(a)was assigned under Part 3 of this Act to the property holder or a person through whom the property holder took the property; and

(b)is in the DBNGP corridor as defined in section 27 of this Act,

may be specified in the instrument as if it had been brought there by a person engaged or concerned in the operations authorised by the licence.