(1) For the purposes of this Part, a gas market participant is any of the following:
(a) a person who engages, or is capable of engaging, in gas market conduct;
(b) a person who has previously been a gas market participant under paragraph (a), (c) or (d);
(c) a body corporate that is related to a body corporate that is a gas market participant;
(d) any of the persons who carry on a joint venture, if:
(i) subparagraph 4J(a)(i) applies to the joint venture; and
(ii) the joint venture is, or includes, gas market conduct;
(e) a person or body prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
Note: For the meaning of related , see section 4A.
(2) For the purposes of this Part, a person or body prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection is not a gas market participant .
(3) Subsection (1) has effect subject to subsection (2).