Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) Act 1998 Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) (Savings and Transitional) Amendment Regulation 1999 (1999-694) [GG No 144 of 24.12.1999, p 12242] (NSW)

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Gas Pipelines Access (New SouthNew South Wales

Wales) (Savings and Transitional)

Amendment Regulation 1999

under the

Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) Act 1998

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) Act 1998.

KIM YEADON, M.P.,

Minister for Energy

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to allow a number of pipelines that, under the Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) Law, are treated as separate pipelines to be treated as a single pipeline so as:

(a)	to enable the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (in its capacity as the relevant regulator under that Law in relation to those pipelines) to approve a single access arrangement for those pipelines for the period ending on 1 July 2004, and
(b)	to give effect to an access arrangement so approved.

This Regulation is made under the Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) Act 1998, including clause 1 of Schedule 2 (the power to make regulations of a savings or transitional nature).

Published in Gazette No 144 of 24 December 1999, page 12242	Page 1
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Clause 1	Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) (Savings and Transitional) Amendment Regulation 1999

Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) (Savings and Transitional) Amendment Regulation 1999

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales)
(Savings and Transitional) Amendment Regulation 1999.

2 Amendment of Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) (Savings and Transitional) Regulation 1999

The Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) (Savings and

Transitional) Regulation 1999 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Part 4

Insert after Part 3:

Part 4 Aggregation of distribution pipelines

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(1) This clause has effect for all purposes relating to the application of the new Access Code as part of the Gas Pipelines Access (New South Wales) Law.

(2)  In particular, this clause has effect:

(a)

for the purpose of enabling the Tribunal (as the Relevant Regulator under the new Access Code) to approve revisions to the AGL access undertaking in the form of a single access arrangement, and

(b)

for the purpose of giving effect to an access arrangement so approved.

(3)

The following pipelines (each of which is a covered pipeline within the meaning of the new Access Code) are taken to comprise a single pipeline:

(a)	the pipeline from Wilton to Horsley Park (Pipeline Licence No 1),
(b)	the pipeline from Wilton to Wollongong (Pipeline Licence No 2),
(c)	the pipeline from Horsley Park to Plumpton (Pipeline Licence No 3),
(d)	the pipeline from Plumpton to Killingworth (Pipeline Licence No 7),
(e)	the pipeline from Killingworth to Walsh Point (Pipeline Licence No 8),

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(f)	the pipelines within the AGL NSW distribution system,
(g)	the pipelines within the AGL Central West distribution system,

being pipelines and systems referred to in Schedule A to the

new Access Code.

(4)	This clause has effect despite any provision of the new Access Code.
(5)	This clause ceases to have effect on 1 July 2004.

BY AUTHORITY

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