If:
(a) a major project involves establishing a new relevant facility; and
(b) there are 2 or more persons (the multiple operators ) who have, or are to have, joint or several responsibility for operating the new relevant facility, or a part of the new relevant facility;
then:
(c) for the purposes of this Act, each of the multiple operators is an operator of the new relevant facility; and
(d) a reference in:
(i) this Act; or
(ii) the legislative rules; or
(iii) another instrument made under this Act; or
(iv) an approved AIP plan; or
(v) a draft AIP plan;
to the operator of the new relevant facility is to be read as a reference to each of the multiple operators.