75Ceasing to operate pipeline

75 Ceasing to operate pipeline

75 Ceasing to operate pipeline

(1) Except with the consent in writing of the Minister and subject to compliance with such conditions, if any, as are specified in the instrument of consent, a pipeline licensee shall not cease to operate the pipeline.

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.

(2) It is not an offence against subsection (1) if the failure of the pipeline licensee to operate the pipeline—

(a) was in the ordinary course of operating the pipeline,

(b) was for the purpose of repairing or maintaining the pipeline, or

(c) was in an emergency in which there was a likelihood of loss or injury.

s 75: Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1.