NSW Government
NSW Climate and Energy Action

Pipelines and Gas Supply Regulations

This consultation is now closed. Thank you to all who participated.

A man and a woman wearing high vis workwear and helmets walking near a gas pipeline
Credit: APA Group
 

Key information

The NSW Government consulted on:

Consultation period now closed
  • Opened: Wednesday 23 July 2025
  • Closed: Sunday 21 September 2025 at 11:59 pm

Proposed changes to Gas Supply and Pipelines regulations

The NSW Pipelines and Gas Supply laws regulate the reliable supply and distribution of gas and the safe construction and operation of gas networks and pipelines in NSW. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (the department) engaged with the community on proposed changes to the gas supply and pipelines legislation:  

  1. Gas Supply [Safety and Network Management] Amendment Regulation 2025  
  2. Pipelines Amendment [Miscellaneous] Regulation 2025 

Draft guidelines for engaging with landowners to access and acquire land for pipeline projects

Under the Pipelines Act 1967, land and easements can be accessed and compulsorily acquired for pipeline projects. To increase the transparency and consistency of these processes, the department released 2 draft guidelines for community feedback:

  1. Authority to Survey Guideline: Engaging with landholders to survey land for a pipeline in NSW
  2. Pipelines Compulsory Acquisition Process Guideline: Compulsory acquisition of land for a pipeline in NSW.

These guidelines are the processes that pipeline proponents are expected to follow to engage with landholders. The guidelines do not change the law, but are intended to improve governance and implementation of the law. 

Community and stakeholder engagement

We recognise that these new regulatory changes and guidelines will be of keen interest to landholders and communities along proposed pipeline routes.

We invited interested community members and landholders to participate in 3 in-person forums and 2 online webinars where we took participants through the regulation amendments and the draft guidelines. You can view the presentations and the notes from these sessions here.

Key documents

Consultation process: Fact Sheet (PDF, 90.5KB)

Community forums and webinars

Notes from community forums: 

Proposed changes to Gas Supply and Pipelines regulations

Draft guidelines for engaging with landowners to access and acquire land for pipeline projects

Next steps

Consultation is now closed. 

Regulations to be implemented from Q4 2025. 

Privacy collection notice

SECNewgate Australia (non-NSW government agency) is collecting your personal information, including your name, email and post code (your information) on behalf of the department, for the purpose of engagement on the Pipelines and Gas Supply regulatory changes.  

The feedback form is hosted on a third-party platform managed by Qualtrics XM, secnewgate.qualtrics.com. Feedback submissions by email will be managed by SECNewgate Australia.

Your feedback form responses will be sent to our third-party consultant, SECNewgate who will manage and store the data on behalf of the department. Once the feedback form closes, SECNewgate will securely transfer the dataset to the department, including your name, email and post code.

Feedback will be manually reviewed however if a large volume of feedback is received, an Artificial Intelligence tool may be used on de-identified data to assist with analysis and the capture of different ideas. Any AI-generated results will be manually reviewed to ensure accuracy and compliance.  

Feedback submissions that you have agreed can be made public may be referred to in a report on the outcome of the consultation. Any anonymous feedback will be identified as such. If you do not want your personal or organisation’s details or part of your submission published, please state this clearly in your submission and tell us why.    

Your information will not be shared with anyone else unless you give your consent, or the law requires us to do so.  

You are not required by law to give SECNewgate your information, but if you choose not to, we may not be able to share our responses to feedback with you and better understand general participant demographics. 

To access or correct your personal information, please contact:

For information on how SECNewgate will handle your personal information, please see their privacy policy. For information on how Qualtrics XM will handle your personal information, please see their collection notice. For more information on how the department will handle your personal information, please see our Privacy Statement.  

More information

See here for more information on the NSW Government's role in energy networks.

If you would like to contact the NSW Government project team, please reach out to [email protected]