14AER – authorisation of preparatory steps

14 AER – 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 one of the following (the authorising law):

(i) the National Energy Retail Law (Tasmania);

(ii) the National Energy Retail Regulations (Tasmania);

(iii) this Act;

(iv) 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 this Act as a law of this jurisdiction.

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