9Effect of plan

9 Effect of plan

9 Effect of plan

(1) The Minister must take the plan into account when exercising the Minister’s functions under this Act.

(2) The consumer trustee must take the plan into account when exercising the consumer trustee’s functions under Part 6, Divisions 3 and 4.

(3) The infrastructure planner must take the plan into account when exercising the following functions—

(a) a function under Part 5,

(b) a function prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section as a function in relation to which the consumer trustee must, when exercising, take the plan into account.

(4) To give effect to the plan, the infrastructure planner must—

(a) make the appointment of a network operator under section 31A(1) subject to conditions the infrastructure planner considers necessary to give effect to the plan, and

(b) include, in a recommendation to the Minister under section 31B(1), details of conditions to which the infrastructure planner considers the direction should be made subject to give effect to the plan.

s 9: Subst 2025 No 80, Sch 1[2].