Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Gas Pipelines Access (Victoria) Act 1998 - SECT 24A

Access arrangements

24A. Access arrangements



(1) An application for acceptance of an access arrangement made, but not
determined, before the repeal of Part 4B of the Gas Industry Act 1994 by this
Act is deemed to be an application for acceptance of an access arrangement
under the new Access Code and anything done in connection with the application
under that Part is deemed to have been done for the purposes of an application
under the new Access Code.





(2) An access arrangement in force under Part 4B of the Gas Industry Act 1994,
as so in force immediately before the repeal of that Part by this Act, is
deemed to be an access arrangement in force under the new Access Code and,
subject to subsection (3), has effect accordingly.

(3) Until its first review under section 2 of the new Access Code, an access
arrangement to which subsection (2) applies continues to be subject to
sections 3 and 8 and to section 9 (so far as it applies to sections 3 and 8)
and to sections 2.33 and 2.48A of the old Access Code and is not subject to
the corresponding provisions of the new Access Code.

(4) A tender process approved for the purposes of section 3 of the old Access
Code and commenced but not completed before the repeal of Part 4B of the Gas
Industry Act 1994 has effect as a tender process approved and commenced under
the new Access Code and may be completed for the purposes of that Code.

(5) Section 3 of the new Access Code has effect as if it included sections
3.39 and 3.40 of the old Access Code.

(6) Until 1 January 2000, section 7 of the new Access Code has effect as if
the definitions of Associate and Associate Contract in section 7 of the old
Access Code were substituted for the corresponding definitions in section 7 of
the new Access Code.









(7) In this section-

first review, in relation to an access arrangement, means the date approved by
the relevant regulator within the meaning of the new Access Code as the
revisions commencement date for the purposes of the access arrangement;

new Access Code means the National Third Party Access Code for Natural Gas
Pipeline Systems (a copy of which, as agreed by the Council of Australian
Governments on 7 November 1997, is set out in Schedule 2 to the South
Australian Act) or, if that Code is amended in accordance with Schedule 1 to
that Act, that Code as so amended and in force for the time being, as it
applies because of section 7 of this Act as a law of Victoria;

old Access Code" means the Access Code under Part 4B of the Gas Industry Act
1994, as in force immediately before the repeal of that Part by this Act.