Specific duty relating to well and surface infrastructure integrity
61F Specific duty relating to well and surface infrastructure integrity
A permittee or licensee must take reasonable steps to:
(a) identify and assess any hazard or risk that might compromise the integrity of a well or surface infrastructure; and
(b) implement and maintain measures to eliminate or, if that is not reasonably practicable, control, any hazard or risk that might compromise the integrity of a well or surface infrastructure.
(2) A permittee or licensee commits an offence if the permittee or licensee fails to take reasonable steps to control any hazard or risk that might compromise the integrity of a well or surface infrastructure.
Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units.
(3) An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.
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