Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting (Acceptable Alternative Report – Western Australia – Western Australia’s Territorial Sea) Declaration 2018

I, Josh Frydenberg, Minister for the Environment and Energy, make the following declaration.

Dated 9 January 2018

Josh Frydenberg

Minister for the Environment and Energy

1  Name

This instrument is the Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting (Acceptable Alternative Report – Western Australia – Western Australia’s Territorial Sea) Declaration 2018.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of the instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 19(2) of the Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting Rules 2017.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

Rules means the Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting Rules 2017.

Secretary means the Secretary of the Department.

5  Declaration

For the purposes of paragraph 19(1)(c) of the Rules, a monthly production report to which the following paragraphs apply is declared to be an acceptable alternative report for January 2018 or a later calendar month:

 (a) the report is given in accordance with regulation 78 of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2015 (WA);

 (b) the giver of the report consents to the report being given to the Secretary.

Note: For the purposes of paragraph 19(1)(c) of the Rules, the Minister may, by notifiable instrument, declare that a monthly production report given in accordance with subparagraph 19(1)(b)(i), (ii) or (iii) of the Rules is an acceptable alternative report for a month.