294FSouth Australian Minister to make initial Rules relating to access to non-scheme pipelines

294F South Australian Minister to make initial Rules relating to access to non-scheme pipelines

294F South Australian Minister to make initial Rules relating to access to non-scheme pipelines

(1) The Minister in right of the Crown of South Australia administering Part 2 of the National Gas (South Australia) Act 2008 of South Australia (the South Australian Minister) may make Rules on any 1 or more of the following subjects—

(a) access proposals, access disputes and arbitrations under Chapter 6A;

(b) the subject matter of a new head power added to Schedule 1 by the Pipelines Access/Arbitration amendments;

(c) any other subject contemplated by, or consequential on, the Pipelines Access/Arbitration amendments.

(2) Rules may only be made under subsection (1) on the recommendation of the MCE.

(3) Section 74(3) applies to Rules made under subsection (1) in the same way as it applies to Rules made by the AEMC.

(4) As soon as practicable after making Rules under subsection (1), the South Australian Minister must—

(a) publish notice of the making of the Rules in the South Australian Government Gazette stating the date of commencement or, if they commence at different times, various dates of commencement; and

(b) making the Rules publicly available.

(5) The South Australian Minister may, by a later notice published in the South Australian Government Gazette, vary a commencement date fixed under subsection (4)(a) or this subsection.

(6) Once the first Rules have been made under subsection (1), no further Rules can be made under that subsection.

(7) Rules in the nature of a derogation may be made under this section even though no request has been made for the derogation.

(8) In this section—

Pipelines Access/Arbitration amendments means the amendments made to this Law by the National Gas (South Australia) (Pipelines Access—Arbitration) Amendment Act 2017.

s 294F: Ins 2017 No 23, sec 8.