148Service provider must not enter into or give effect to associate contracts inconsistent with competitive parity rule

148 Service provider must not enter into or give effect to associate contracts inconsistent with competitive parity rule

148 Service provider must not enter into or give effect to associate contracts inconsistent with competitive parity rule

(1) A service provider must not—

(a) enter into an associate contract that is; or

(b) vary an associate contract so that contract, as varied, is; or

(c) give effect to a provision of an associate contract that is,

inconsistent with the competitive parity rule unless—

(d) that associate contract is an approved associated contract; or

(e) that provision is contained in an approved associate contract.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), and any Rules made for the purposes of that subsection, the competitive parity rule is the rule that a service provider must ensure that any pipeline services that the service provider provides to an associate of the service provider are provided to that associate as if that associate were a separate unrelated entity.

s 148: Am 2022 No 21, sec 73.