13NAuthorisation of preparatory steps for instruments or decisions of Australian Energy Regulator—electricity and gas laws

13N Authorisation of preparatory steps for instruments or decisions of Australian Energy Regulator—electricity and gas 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 Electricity (Commonwealth) Law and Regulations or the National Gas (Commonwealth) Law and Regulations (the authorising law); and (b) the preparatory step would have been required under the authorising law if the amendments of South Australian Electricity Legislation or the South Australian Gas Legislation made by the Statutes Amendment (National Energy Retail Law) Act 2011 of South Australia had started to apply under this Act as a law of the Commonwealth; and (c) the Australian Energy Regulator takes the preparatory step: (i) on or after the time that the amendments were enacted; but (ii) before the time that the amendments 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.