11Australian Energy Regulator—authorisation of preparatory steps

11 Australian Energy Regulator—authorisation of preparatory steps

11 Australian Energy Regulator—authorisation of preparatory steps

(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 the National Energy Retail Law (NSW), or this Act, or an instrument made or having effect under this Act (the authorising law), and

(b) the AER takes the preparatory step—

(i) at or after the time that the South Australian Act was enacted, but

(ii) before the time that the National Energy Retail Law set out in the Schedule to the South Australian Act first started to apply under this Act as a law of New South Wales.

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