170Compliance with access determination

170 Compliance with access determination

170 Compliance with access determination

(1) Subject to the Rules and subsection (2)—

(a) a party to a scheme pipeline access dispute in respect of which an access determination is made must comply with the access determination; and

(b) an access determination in relation to a non-scheme pipeline is enforceable as if it were a contract between the parties to the access determination.

Note—

See also Chapter 8 Part 6 in relation to the enforcement of access determinations.

(2) A user or prospective user of a pipeline service to which an access determination relates is not bound to seek access to the service.

(3) However, if a user or prospective user of a pipeline service seeks or obtains access, the user or prospective user is bound by any relevant provision of the access determination.

s 170: Subst 2022 No 21, sec 75.