19Exception to duty to report—reporting to NOPTA or Western Australia

19 Exception to duty to report—reporting to NOPTA or Western Australia

Scope of this section (1) This section applies if: (a) apart from subsection (4) of this section, a person would have to give a report (the current report) for a calendar month under subsection 11(2) of the Act in relation to the covered activity of: (i) producing crude oil, condensate or liquefied petroleum gas at an Australian field; or (ii) holding stock of crude oil, condensate or liquefied petroleum gas at an Australian field; and (b) a monthly production report in relation to the month is given, in accordance with any of the following laws, for the licence area in which the field is located: (i) regulation 7.19 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2011; (ii) regulation 79 of the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2015 (WA); (iii) regulation 78 of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2015 (WA); and (c) that report is declared under subsection (2) to be an acceptable alternative report for the month. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), the Minister may, by notifiable instrument, declare that a monthly production report given in accordance with the law mentioned in subparagraph (1)(b)(i), (ii) or (iii) is an acceptable alternative report for the month. Only density required to be reported for January (3) If the month is January, then, for the purposes of paragraph 11(4)(a) of the Act, the current report: (a) must include the average density of crude oil, condensate or liquefied petroleum gas (whichever is applicable) held, produced or consumed at, or delivered to, the field during the month, broken down into the relevant categories and subcategories of covered product mentioned in Schedule 1 to this instrument; and (b) is not required to include the other fuel information mentioned in column 3 of item 1 or 2 of the table in subsection 16(1). No report required for other months (4) If the month is not January, then, for the purposes of subsection 13(1) of the Act, subsection 11(2) of the Act does not apply in relation to the current report if: (a) a report was given in accordance with subsection 11(2) of the Act in relation to the covered activity and the field for the previous month; or

Note: If the previous month was January, subsection (3) of this section might have applied.

(b) because of this subsection, a report was not required to be given in accordance with subsection 11(2) of the Act in relation to the covered activity and the field for the previous month.