Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Invitation to Apply for a Feasibility Licence) Instrument (No. 1) 2024 (Cth)

Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Invitation to Apply for a Feasibility Licence) Instrument (No. 1) 2024

I, Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, make the following instrument.

Dated 6 March 2024

Chris Bowen Minister for Climate Change and Energy

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Invitation to apply for feasibility licences

1 Name This instrument is the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Invitation to Apply for a Feasibility Licence) Instrument (No. 1) 2024.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument Immediately after the commencement of the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Declared Area OEI-01-2024) Declaration 2024.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under section 9 of the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Regulations 2022.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 8 of the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021, including the following: (a) declared area; (b) eligible person; (c) feasibility licence. In this instrument: declaration means the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Declared Area OEI‑01‑2024) Declaration 2024. Declared Area OEI-01-2024 has the same meaning as in the declaration.