13LAuthorisation of preparatory steps for instruments or decisions of Australian Energy Regulator—energy retail laws

13L Authorisation of preparatory steps for instruments or decisions of Australian Energy Regulator—energy retail laws

(1) This section applies if: (a) the Australian Energy Regulator is required to do something (a preparatory step) before making a decision or making an instrument under the National Energy Retail Law and Regulations (Commonwealth) (the authorising law); and (b) the Australian Energy Regulator takes the preparatory step: (i) on or after the time that the National Energy Retail Law (South Australia) Act 2011 of South Australia was enacted; but (ii) before the time that the South Australian Energy Retail Legislation first started to apply under this Act as a law of the Commonwealth. (2) For the purposes of the authorising law, the Australian Energy Regulator is taken to have complied with the requirement to take the preparatory step.