14Local regulations may exempt pipeline

14 Local regulations may exempt pipeline

14 Local regulations may exempt pipeline

(1) A local regulation may declare a pipeline, or a proposed pipeline, to be a remote pipeline if the pipeline—

(a) is, or will be, hauling covered gas other than natural gas or a natural gas equivalent, as defined in the National Energy Retail Law; and

(b) is, or will be, wholly within the jurisdiction for which the regulation is made; and

(c) is not, or will not be, interconnected in any way with the system of transmission pipelines and distribution pipelines used to convey gas within and between participating jurisdictions.

(2) A remote pipeline, and the service provider for the pipeline (but only in respect of the remote pipeline) is exempt from the following—

(a) section 91DB;

(b) Chapter 3;

(c) Chapter 4;

(d) Chapter 5;

(e) section 223;

(f) Chapter 7A.

(3) Before recommending the making of a local regulation declaring a pipeline or a proposed pipeline to be a remote pipeline, the responsible Minister of the participating jurisdiction must have regard to the national gas objective.

(4) A pipeline or a proposed pipeline ceases, with immediate effect, to be a remote pipeline if—

(a) 1 or more of the requirements in subsection (1) ceases to apply to the pipeline; or

(b) the local regulation declaring the pipeline to be a remote pipeline is repealed.

s 14: Rep 2022 No 21, sec 21. Ins 2023 No 36, sec 11.