Victorian Numbered Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE AMENDMENT (NOPSEMA) ACT 2012 (NO. 74 OF 2012)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Purpose  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  
   4.      Simplified outline—Part 1.1  
   5.      Definitions  
   6.      Evidence of matters entered in the Register  
   7.      Simplified outline—Division 1 of Part 6.5  
   8.      Appointment of petroleum project inspectors  
   9.      Identity cards of petroleum project inspectors  
   10.     Simplified outline—Part 6.6  
   11.     Definitions—Part 6.6  
   12.     Authorised persons  
   13.     Petroleum safety zones  
   14.     Minister may authorise entry into area to be avoided  
   15.     Statute law revision—Fees for petroleum retention leases  
   16.     National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority  
   17.     Simplified outline—Part 6.9  
   18.     Definitions—Part 6.9  
   19.     Functions and powers of the Safety Authority  
   20.     Safety Authority's functions  
   21.     Safety Authority's ordinary powers  
   22.     Judicial notice of seal  
   23.     Power to refer matters to NOGSAC  
   24.     Safety Authority Board  
   25.     Functions of the Board  
   26.     Chief Executive Officer and staff of the Safety Authority  
   27.     CEO acts for Safety Authority  
   28.     Working with the Board  
   29.     Secondments to the Safety Authority  
   30.     Other Safety Authority provisions  
   31.     Minister may require the Safety Authority to prepare reports or give information  
   32.     Directions to the Safety Authority  
   33.     Safety Authority must comply with directions  
   34.     Liability for acts and omissions—Part 6.9  
   35.     New section 718A inserted  
   36.     Liability for acts and omissions—Part 9.4  
   37.     New section 798A inserted  
   38.     Simplified outline—Schedule 3  
   39.     Definitions—Schedule 3  
   40.     Updates to references to Safety Authority  
   41.     Disqualification of health and safety representatives  
   42.     Further updates to references to Safety Authority  
   43.     Exemptions  
   44.     Simplified outline—Part 4 of Schedule 3  
   45.     Powers, functions and duties of OHS inspectors  
   46.     Inspections  
   47.     Additional updates to references to Safety Authority  
   48.     Data access powers  
   49.     Retention of things seized  
   50.     Magistrate may permit a thing seized to be retained for a further period  
   51.     Reports on inspections  
   52.     Notifying and reporting accidents and dangerous occurrences  
   53.     Records of accidents and dangerous occurrences to be kept  
   54.     Institution of prosecutions  
   55.     Criminal Procedure Act 2009  
   56.     Repeal of amending Act  
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