38ACMetering safety management system—exemptions

38AC Metering safety management system—exemptions

38AC Metering safety management system—exemptions

(1) For the purposes of the Act, section 75(3), a metering coordinator is exempt from the Act, section 38AC(1), if—

(a) the metering coordinator engages a metering provider to provide, install, maintain or replace an advanced meter, and

(b) the metering coordinator ensures that the metering provider has a metering safety management system in place.

(2) For the purposes of the Act, section 75(3), a retailer is exempt from the Act, section 38AC(2) if—

(a) the metering coordinator engaged by the retailer engages a metering provider to install, maintain or replace an advanced meter, and

(b) the metering provider—

(i) has a metering safety management system in place, and

(ii) installs, maintains or replaces the advanced meter in a way that ensures the safety of persons and property, and

(c) the retailer ensures—

(i) the metering provider has a metering safety management system in place, and

(ii) the metering provider installs, maintains or replaces the advanced meter in a way that ensures the safety of persons and property.

(3) For the purposes of the Act, section 75(3), a metering coordinator is exempt from the Act, section 38AC(5) if—

(a) the metering coordinator engages a metering provider to provide, install, maintain or replace an advanced meter, and

(b) the metering provider—

(i) has provided documentation relating to the provider’s metering safety management system to the Secretary before providing, installing, maintaining or replacing the advanced meter, and

(ii) ensures the metering safety management system is brought to the attention of the persons engaged by the metering coordinator to install, replace or maintain an advanced meter, and

(iii) ensures a copy of the documents relating to the system are made readily available to those persons.

pt 9AA (cll 38AA–38AC): Ins 2021 (616), Sch 1.