Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021

A management plan for a licence must address the following matters:

how the licence holder is to carry out offshore infrastructure activities and other activities under the licence;

any matters that the conditions of the licence require to be addressed in the management plan;

environmental management, including how the licence holder is to comply with any obligations under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, or regulations under that Act, in relation to the activities to be carried out under the licence;

how the licence holder is complying with, or is to comply with, section 116 (maintenance and removal of property etc. by licence holder);

how the licence holder is complying with, or is to comply with, sections 117 and 118 (financial security);

requirements for the licence holder to keep, at a place in Australia, records in relation to offshore infrastructure activities, and make those records available for inspection under the applied work health and safety provisions;

any other matters that this Act requires to be addressed in a management plan;

any matters prescribed by the licensing scheme;

any matters required by the Regulator under subsection (3).

Without limiting paragraph (1)(h), the licensing scheme may require a management plan to address any of the following:

the design, infrastructure integrity and maintenance of licence infrastructure;

work health and safety;

emergency management;

the making and keeping of records;

requirements to consult with any person that may be affected by activities carried out under the licence;

the outcomes of any consultation, including consultation carried out before the management plan was approved or while the management plan is in effect;

monitoring, auditing, managing and reviewing the management plan and the licence holder’s compliance with the management plan.

The Regulator may require a management plan for a licence to make any reasonable provision for any matters, or to impose any reasonable requirements on the licence holder, in relation to the offshore infrastructure activities to be carried out under the licence, that the Regulator considers appropriate.