Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RENEWABLE ENERGY (ELECTRICITY) ACT 2000 - SECT 12B

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  the Regulator receives an application that is properly made under section 12A (about an application for provisional accreditation of a power station); and

                     (b)  the Regulator is satisfied that some or all of the proposed components of the system would, if assembled, be a power station for the purposes of this Act;

the Regulator must, by written notice given to the applicant:

                     (c)  specify which of those proposed components (the provisional components ) would, if assembled, be a power station for the purposes of this Act; and

                     (d)  specify that, if an application is properly made under section 13 in relation to the power station:

                              (i)  the Regulator will determine that the components specified in that application are taken to be a power station for the purposes of this Act if the Regulator is satisfied that they are not materially different from the provisional components; and

                             (ii)  the power station will be eligible for accreditation if subsection 14(2) is satisfied.

Refusal

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  the Regulator receives an application that is properly made under section 12A; and

                     (b)  the Regulator is not satisfied that some or all of the proposed components of the system would, if assembled, be a power station for the purposes of this Act;

the Regulator must, by written notice given to the applicant, refuse the application.

Regulations

             (3)  Regulations made for the purposes of section 14, in relation to determining the components of a power station, apply in a corresponding way to this section.