New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL ACT 1992 - SECT 24A

24A Arbitration of access disputes

(1) If a dispute exists with respect to a public infrastructure access regime that provides for the application of this Part, any party to the dispute may refer the dispute to arbitration.

(2) The Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 applies to such an arbitration, but subject to this Part and the regulations.

(3) A dispute is taken to exist with respect to such an access regime if a person (the third party) who wants access to a service, or wants a change to some aspect of the person’s existing access to a service, under the access regime is unable to agree with the provider of the service on one or more aspects of access to the service.

(4) The parties to the dispute are the third party and the provider of the service. The provider of the service is the government agency that owns, controls or operates the infrastructure by means of which the service is provided.