Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Compliance Measures) Act 2013

The CEO may make available offshore information or a thing to one or more of the agencies referred to in subsection (2) for the agency to use in the course of the exercise of the agency’s powers, or the performance of the agency’s functions, under or for the purposes of a law.

The agencies are the following:

the Australian Maritime Safety Authority;

the Civil Aviation Safety Authority;

the Australian Defence Force;

the Australian Federal Police;

Customs;

the police force of a State or Territory;

the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Commonwealth;

the coroner of a State or the Northern Territory;

an agency of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, that is responsible for administering or implementing laws relating to occupational health and safety;

an agency of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, that is responsible for administering or implementing laws relating to the protection of the environment;

any other agency of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, responsible for investigating contraventions of laws, or administering or ensuring compliance with laws.

If offshore information or a thing is made available to an agency under subsection (1), the CEO may, at any time, by written notice to the agency, impose conditions in relation to:

the agency’s use of the offshore information or thing; or

whether, and the extent to which, the agency itself may make the offshore information or thing available to any other agency or person.

A notice under subsection (3) is not a legislative instrument.