76FCosts of administration

76F Costs of administration

76F Costs of administration

(1) Costs reasonably incurred by or on behalf of the Tribunal and the step-in operator in the exercise of functions under a Network Administration Order are payable by a network operator of the distribution or transmission system concerned and are recoverable from a network operator by the Tribunal as a debt due to the Crown.

(2) Those costs may also be recovered by being deducted by the step-in operator from the revenues from network operations.

(3) Revenues from network operations by the step-in operator are (after deduction of any amount authorised by this section) payable to the person who would be entitled to the revenues arising from operation by the network operator.

(4) A certificate of the Minister as to the amount of the costs recoverable from a network operator under this section is evidence of the matters certified.

pt 6A (ss 76A–76H): Ins 2015 No 5, Sch 8.7 [19].