13Authorisation of preparatory steps by AER

13 Authorisation of preparatory steps by AER

[Section 13 Inserted by No. 9 of 2012, s. 6, Applied:01 Jul 2012]

(1)  This section applies if –

(a) the AER is required to do something (a preparatory step) before making a decision or making an instrument under one of the following (the authorising law):

(i) the National Electricity (Tasmania) Law;

(ii) the National Electricity (Tasmania) Regulations;

(iii) the Rules;

(iv) this Act;

(v) an instrument made or having effect under this Act; and

(b) the AER takes the preparatory step –

(i) at or after the time that the National Energy Retail Law (South Australia) Act 2011 of South Australia was enacted; but

(ii) before the time the National Energy Retail Law first started to apply under the National Energy Retail Law (Tasmania) Act 2012 as a law of Tasmania.

(2)  For the purposes of the authorising law, the AER is taken to have complied with the requirement to take the preparatory step.