Petroleum, Geothermal Energy and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Registration Fees) Regulations 1990

The supplied text does not identify the persons or entities who must pay any of the amounts. It also does not say which types of application, registration, licence, permit, interest, or other transaction correspond to s 4(2), s 4(3), s 4(4), s 4(6), and s 4(7). The title refers to registration fees and names petroleum, geothermal energy and greenhouse gas storage, but the operative provisions shown only prescribe amounts by cross-reference to the Act. The title alone is not enough to allocate a fee to a particular industry participant or transaction.

The parties directly affected would depend on how the Act’s s 4 applies. For example, the Act may identify an applicant, holder, transferee, or another person as responsible for an amount, but none of those categories appears in the supplied regulations. It would be unsafe to treat any particular company, project operator, landholder, or applicant as the payer based only on this extract. Similarly, the source does not establish whether the same amount applies to individuals and corporate applicants, or whether exemptions, concessions, waivers, or adjustments exist elsewhere.

The amounts could also affect organisations that budget for or administer registration processes. The regulations’ figures provide a direct monetary input for the five referenced subsections. However, the source does not say whether the fee is paid once, periodically, per area, per application, or on another basis. It does not specify whether an organisation can pass the cost through contractually, or how the fees affect project economics. Those questions depend on the Act, applicable regulations not included here, and the relevant commercial arrangements.

For a sector-specific assessment, a reader would need to identify the transaction governed by each subsection of s 4 and then establish who is legally responsible for the amount. The extract does not establish whether any of the five amounts applies to a particular person’s circumstances.

The regulations’ operative requirement is to prescribe amounts for the purposes of five subsections of s 4 of the Act. Regulation 3 does that by assigning fixed dollar figures. The supplied text does not itself state a duty in the form “a person must pay”, nor does it identify a person who must pay. Any payment obligation would need to be found in the relevant provision of the Act or another applicable instrument. A cautious reading is that r 3 supplies amounts to be used where the corresponding provisions of the Act apply, rather than setting out the complete payment procedure.

The figures are stated as exact amounts: $6,010 under r 3(1), r 3(2), and r 3(4); $9,550 under r 3(3); and $9,597 under r 3(5). The extract does not say whether these amounts include taxes or other charges, whether they are indexed, whether rounding rules apply, or whether a partial payment is possible. It does not specify a due date, method of payment, responsible decision-maker, or procedure for disputing an amount.

No rights of review, appeal, refund, exemption, or waiver are set out in the supplied regulations. That does not show that such rights or mechanisms do not exist in the Act or elsewhere. The regulations’ silence on those matters means their presence and scope cannot be determined from this source.

For operational analysis, the key task is to connect the relevant transaction to the correct subsection of s 4. The extract alone does not make that connection. A lawyer or compliance professional reviewing a particular fee would likely want to check the current text of the Act, the facts triggering the relevant subsection, and any other instruments governing calculation, timing, payment, review, or exemption. Without those materials, the amounts can be reported accurately, but the person’s full duties and rights cannot be stated.

The supplied regulations do not set out a penalty for failing to pay a prescribed amount. They contain no offence provision, civil penalty, interest charge, late fee, cancellation mechanism, refusal power, prosecution procedure, or enforcement notice. They also do not identify an enforcement authority or explain how a fee is collected. Accordingly, no conclusion about the consequences of non-payment can be drawn from this extract alone.

Regulation 3 prescribes amounts for the purposes of specified provisions in s 4 of the Act. If the Act makes payment a condition of a registration-related step, or attaches consequences to non-payment, that mechanism would be found in the Act or another source, not in the quoted text of these regulations. The extract does not provide the wording of s 4, so it is not possible to say whether the amounts are fees payable before an application is processed, charges arising on registration, or amounts with some other legal function.

The distinction matters for compliance and cost assessment. A prescribed amount may be the monetary component of a wider statutory process, but the regulations do not state the administrative sequence, the person responsible for checking payment, or whether non-payment affects the validity or processing of an application. Nor does the compilation table provide enforcement information; it records publication and commencement details for amendments.

A complete enforcement analysis would require the operative Act provisions and any applicable provisions dealing with non-payment, collection, review, refund, or consequences for registration status. The supplied source supports a narrow finding: it lists five prescribed amounts, but it does not specify penalties or enforcement procedures. It would be inaccurate to infer that no consequences exist simply because none appear in this instrument. Equally, it would be unsupported to describe any particular consequence as applying without the relevant legal text.

The regulations expressly depend on the Petroleum, Geothermal Energy and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Registration Fees) Act 1967. Regulation 3 prescribes amounts “for the purposes of” five subsections of s 4: subsections (2), (3), (4), (6), and (7). That wording makes the Act central to understanding the regulations. The regulations provide dollar values, while the Act supplies the statutory provisions to which those values attach. The Act itself is not reproduced in the supplied material.

Regulation 2 refers to the Petroleum (Registration Fees) Amendment Act 1990 as the instrument whose commencement triggers the regulations. The compilation table identifies the original regulations as the Petroleum (Registration Fees) Regulations 1990 and records commencement on 1 October 1990. The “Other notes” section says the instrument is now known by its expanded current citation, following the citation change noted under r 1.

The compilation table records a history of amendments made under instruments with changing titles. Earlier amendments refer to petroleum registration fees; later instruments refer to petroleum and geothermal energy; the current title also includes greenhouse gas storage. The table records amendments made through the Mines and Petroleum Regulations Amendment instruments, including parts dealing with fees and charges. These entries establish that amendments were made and when they commenced. They do not, by themselves, explain the detailed legal relationship between this instrument and every other regulation amended by the same instruments.

The extract does not include the petroleum, geothermal energy, or greenhouse gas storage statutes that may define the underlying applications or rights, nor does it identify any other applicable laws. It is therefore not possible to state how the prescribed amounts interact with licensing, environmental approvals, taxation, contract terms, or other charges. Those interactions should not be assumed from the title or amendment history. The reliable point is narrower: this instrument supplies amounts for specified provisions of the 1967 Act, and the Act’s text is necessary to interpret their legal operation.

The compilation table shows that the regulations began as the Petroleum (Registration Fees) Regulations 1990, published on 28 September 1990 and commencing on 1 October 1990. The current citation is the Petroleum, Geothermal Energy and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Registration Fees) Regulations 1990. The note under r 1 says that the citation was changed, and the compilation table records a 2026 amending instrument that forms part of the current compilation.

The table records amendments in 2002 and 2003, followed by a reprint as at 7 May 2004. It then lists amendments in 2009, two in 2010, and amendments in 2011, 2012, two in 2014, 2015, and annual or near-annual fees-and-charges instruments in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Further amendments are listed for 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2026. The table identifies publication details and, for each instrument, the commencement date or dates.

The compilation notes under r 3 also identify a series of Gazette amendments to the prescribed amounts: 28 June 2002, 28 February 2003, 23 June 2009, 11 May 2010, 16 July 2010, 1 July 2011, 12 June 2012, 25 February 2014, 17 June 2014, 30 June 2015, 24 June 2016, 23 June 2017, 25 June 2018, 18 June 2019, and the 2020, 2021, and 2023 statutory rules. These references show repeated changes to r 3, but the supplied extract does not give the earlier amounts or quantify each change.

The 2026 instrument is identified as the Mines and Petroleum Regulations Amendment Regulations 2026, Pt 5, published on 27 May 2026 and commencing on 28 May 2026. The material says r 1 was inserted by that instrument. The compilation does not establish that the 2026 instrument changed the dollar amounts in r 3. A comparison with earlier versions would be needed to assess the amount history.

The supplied material contains no judgments, tribunal decisions, case names, citations, or discussion of disputes about these regulations. It therefore provides no litigation history from which to describe how a court has interpreted r 3, the meaning of “prescribed amount”, or the relationship between the regulations and s 4 of the Act. No case can be identified on the basis of this source.

That absence is a limit of the document provided, not proof that litigation has never occurred. The compilation table records legislative instruments and commencement information, not court proceedings. The notes under r 3 identify amendment dates, not disputes about whether a fee was validly imposed, correctly calculated, paid by the right person, refundable, or reviewable. Those questions are not resolved by the historical entries.

If litigation research is required, the relevant issues would depend on the underlying facts and the Act’s wording. Questions might include whether a particular transaction falls within one of the referenced subsections, whether a prescribed amount was in force at the relevant time, or whether a statutory decision affecting registration was made under the correct provision. Those are research topics only; this extract does not show that such disputes have arisen or that any particular interpretation has been accepted.

The source also does not state whether there are administrative review pathways or whether decisions connected with these fees are judicially reviewable. That cannot be inferred from the absence of case references. A complete litigation search would need to consult appropriate legal databases and the relevant legislation, including the Act and any provisions governing decisions or review. Based only on the supplied compilation, the accurate report is that it contains no litigation material, and no case or judicial interpretation should be attributed to it.

The most important interpretive limitation is that the instrument gives amounts but not the underlying operation of s 4. The five cross-references are precise, but the extract does not say what each subsection covers. A fee schedule cannot, by itself, answer who pays, what event triggers the amount, or whether the amount is payable once or on another basis. Mapping a project or application to a figure requires the Act’s current text.

The figures are not uniform. Three provisions point to $6,010, while s 4(4) is associated with $9,550 and s 4(7) with $9,597. The source does not explain the distinctions or the reason for the $47 difference between the latter two figures. It would be speculation to infer a fee category, cost basis, or policy rationale from the amounts alone.

A further point is temporal. The compilation records multiple amendments and commencement dates, including changes effective on 1 July in several years and the 2026 citation amendment. The currently reproduced amounts should not automatically be treated as the amounts applicable to an earlier transaction. The relevant historical version and its commencement date may matter. The table gives amendment chronology but not a full history of amounts.

The 2026 amendment inserted r 1 and changed the citation, according to the supplied notes. Its listing does not establish that the dollar amounts were changed at the same time. The r 3 amendment note stops at the 2023 instrument, while the compilation table lists the 2026 instrument separately. That difference is a reason to distinguish citation changes from fee changes, rather than assuming all parts of the instrument changed together.

Finally, the title names several energy and storage fields, but the operative text only cross-refers to the Act. The title is not a substitute for the Act’s definitions, scope, or fee triggers. Neither the absence of an amount for s 4(1) or s 4(5) in r 3 nor the absence of penalty provisions here establishes what the Act provides on those matters.

The regulations alone do not provide a complete compliance procedure. They identify five prescribed amounts but do not set out a payment deadline, payment channel, application process, evidence requirement, responsible officer, refund procedure, or consequence of non-payment. A compliance process built only from this extract could identify the figures, but could not reliably determine which figure applies to a particular event or when it must be paid.

A source-based verification sequence would begin by identifying which subsection of s 4 is relevant to the particular transaction. The prescribed amount can then be read directly from r 3: $6,010 under subsections (2), (3), and (6); $9,550 under subsection (4); and $9,597 under subsection (7). The next step in the analysis is to read the Act’s wording, because the regulations do not identify the relevant payer or triggering event. The applicable version should also be checked against the date of the transaction, given the amendment history.

For organisational record-keeping, relevant information may include the transaction date, the statutory subsection being applied, the version of the regulations in force on that date, the amount recorded, and the source used to identify the person responsible for payment. The supplied regulations do not require these records; these are practical audit fields that follow from the gaps between the prescribed amount and the underlying statutory process.

Questions requiring confirmation from the wider legal materials include whether a fee is triggered, who is responsible, when it is due, whether other charges apply, whether an exemption or refund provision exists, and what happens if payment is late or disputed. The present source does not answer those questions, and no general payment or enforcement rule should be inferred from it. This is general legal information, not legal advice. Zoe can make mistakes. Before acting on this, relying on it, or using any draft, have a qualified Australian lawyer check it.