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Gas Industry Act 2001
20Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order
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20 Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order
S. 20(1) amended by No. 25/2004 s. 11(2).
(1) The Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order cannot be amended except as provided by this section.
S. 20(2) amended by No. 25/2004 s. 11(3).
(2) The Governor in Council may, by Order, revoke the Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order.
S. 20(3) amended by No. 25/2004 s. 11(3).
(3) The Governor in Council may, by Order, amend the Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order to insert specified metering and data collection and processing services as excluded services for the purposes of the Order.
(4) The Governor in Council may, by Order, amend a Tariff Order from time to time so as to extend the application of the Order to additional retailers and additional gas distribution companies.
S. 20(5) amended by Nos 62/2001 s. 77(c)(ii), 25/2004 s. 11(2).
(5) The Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order may confer functions and powers on the ACCC or the Commission relating to the regulation of tariffs and charges under the Order.
S. 20(6) amended by No. 25/2004 s. 11(3), repealed by No. 30/2008 s. 41(2).
(7) An Order under subsection (2), (3) or (4) must be published in the Government Gazette.
S. 20(8) amended by No. 62/2001 s. 77(c)(ii), substituted by No. 75/2004 s. 33[[1]](#endnote-2).
(8) An Order under subsection (1) has effect as from the date specified in the Order.
S. 20(8A) inserted by No. 75/2004 s. 33, repealed by No. 41/2021 s. 56.
S. 20(9) amended by No. 25/2004 s. 11(3).
(9) If a provision of the Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order ceases to have effect, the remaining provisions of that Order continue to have effect, subject to that Order and this Act, according to their tenor and so to have effect, subject to that Order and this Act, as if—
(a) references in those provisions to a provision that has ceased to have effect were a reference to that provision as in force immediately before it ceased to have effect; and
(b) words and expressions used in those provisions that were defined by the provision that has ceased to have effect continue to have the same respective meanings as before the provision ceased to have effect.
S. 20(10) inserted by No. 25/2004 s. 11(4).
(10) In this section ***Wimmera and Colac Tariff Order*** means the Wimmera and Colac Gas Supply Tariff Order 1998 published in the Government Gazette on 17 December 1998 as that Order is amended and in force from time to time.
S. 20A inserted by No. 25/2004 s. 12, amended by No. 30/2008 s. 41(3),
repealed by No. 59/2008 s. 29, new s. 20A inserted by No. 6/2019 s. 10.