Gas Pipelines Access (Privatised DBNGP System) (Transitional) Amendment Regulations 2000 (WA)

23 June 20001 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3191

EG301*

These regulations may be cited as the Gas Pipelines Access
(Privatized DBNGP System) (Transitional) Amendment
Regulations 2000.

Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Act 1998

Gas Pipelines Access (Privatized DBNGP

System) (Transitional) Amendment

Regulations 2000

Made under clause 9(2) of Schedule 3 to the Act by the Administrator in
Executive Council.

1.            Citation

3192 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 123 June 2000

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on 1 July 2000.

3.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Gas Pipelines
Access (Privatized DBNGP System) (Transitional)
Regulations 1999*.

[* Published in Gazette 31 December 1999, pp. 7093-4.]

4.            Regulation 3 amended

(1)	Section 3(1) is amended by deleting "regulation 35 of".
(2)	Section 3(1) is amended by deleting "(which relates to prices in a post-transfer access contract) is" and inserting instead —
" are ".

5.            Schedule 1 amended

(1) Schedule 1 is amended by inserting before clause 1 the

following clauses —

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1A.	Modified regulations 35(1)(a) and (b)
Regulations 35(1)(a) and (b) are amended by adding at the end of each of them —
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, unless the excess is justifiable under

subregulation (la)

1B.	Additional subregulation (la)
After regulation 35(1) the following subregulation is inserted —
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(la) If the price, or a component of the price, exceeds the amount

to which it would be limited because of subregulation (1),
the excess is justifiable if it is no more than is necessary to
offset the consequences of the New Tax System changes

(and no other changes) in relation to that contract.

(2) Clause 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 is amended by inserting after the

definition of "clause 95" the following definition

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"New Tax System changes" has the same meaning as it has

in the New Tax System Price Exploitation Code text

applying as a law of this State under the New Tax

System Price Exploitation Code (Western Australia)

Act 1999. 51

By Command of the Administrator,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.