New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PIPELINES ACT 1967 - SECT 20

20 Plan to be lodged with Registrar-General

(1) At any time after the making of an application for a licence under section 14 or of an application under section 18 for the variation of a licence area by including additional lands in the licence area and before publication of the notification referred to in section 21, the Minister is to cause to be lodged with the Registrar-General a plan of the lands to which the application relates:

(a) showing the route of the proposed pipeline, the situation of any proposed apparatus or works, and the lands (if any) proposed to be used for the purpose of gaining access to the proposed pipeline or proposed apparatus or works, or, as the case may be, any proposed variation of the route of the pipeline, any proposed variation of the situation of any apparatus or works, and any proposed variation of the means of gaining access to the pipeline or any apparatus or works,

(b) identifying, or accompanied by instruments identifying, in relation to those lands, any lands or easements vested or to be vested in the applicant for the purposes of the proposed pipeline, and

(c) accompanied by instruments setting out, in relation to any easements vested or to be vested in the applicant for the purposes of the proposed pipeline, any restrictions as to user imposed or to be imposed in respect of the lands the subject of those easements.

(2) Upon lodgment of the plan and any other instruments pursuant to subsection (1), the Registrar-General shall, if he or she is satisfied that the plan is suitable for registration:

(a) register the plan and record the instruments in such manner as to him or her seems appropriate, and

(b) inform the Minister, by instrument in writing, that he or she has done so and in the instrument specify the charges and expenses incurred by the Registrar-General in relation to the registration of the plan and the recording of the instruments.