Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Gas Pipelines Access (Victoria) Act 1998 - SECT 24

PART 5 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Transitional

24. Transitional



(1) Arbitration or legal proceedings under Part 4B of the Gas Industry Act
1994 relating to a Code pipeline within the meaning of the Gas Pipelines
Access (Victoria) Law that have commenced but not been completed when an
access arrangement is approved in relation to the pipeline under that Law may
be continued under Part 4B of that Act as if an access arrangement had not
been so approved.

(2) For the purposes of this section, arbitration proceedings are taken to
have commenced under Part 4B of the Gas Industry Act 1994 if a person has, in
accordance with that Part, notified the Regulator that an access dispute
exists.

(3) An award of an arbitrator under Part 4B of the Gas Industry Act 1994
relating to a Code pipeline within the meaning of the Gas Pipelines Access
(Victoria) Law has effect as a determination of an arbitrator under that Law.