New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PIPELINES ACT 1967 - SECT 17

17 Duration, review and effect of licence

(1) A licence comes into force on the day specified for the purpose in the licence and remains in force until it is cancelled or surrendered.

(1A) The Minister may review a licence at intervals of not less than 21 years, with the first review of a licence commencing after the twenty-first anniversary of the issue of the licence.

(2) A licence, while it remains in force, authorises the licensee, subject to the conditions to which the licence was granted, to enter the lands specified in the licence and, in so far as his or her estate or interest in those lands permits him or her so to do:

(a) to commence or continue the construction of a pipeline thereon,

(b) to alter or reconstruct a pipeline thereon,

(c) to operate a pipeline thereon, and

(d) to inspect and maintain a pipeline thereon.

(3) Nothing in subsection (2) (c) affects the operation of section 11 (2) (b).