New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GAS (NSW) LAW - SECT 10

10 Things done by 1 service provider to be treated as being done by all of service provider group

(1) This section applies if--

(a) more than 1 person (a
"group" ) carries out a controlling facility activity in respect of a covered gas industry facility (or part of a covered gas industry facility); and

(b) under this Law or the Rules a person who carries out a controlling facility activity in respect of the facility (or part of the facility) mentioned in paragraph (a) is required or allowed to do a thing.

(2) A member of the group (the
"complying member" ) may do that thing on behalf of the other members of the group if the complying member has the written permission of all of the members of that group to do that thing on behalf of the group.

(3) Unless this Law or the Rules otherwise provide, on the doing of a thing referred to in subsection (2) by a complying member, the members of the group on whose behalf the complying member does that thing must, for the purposes of this Law and the Rules, each be taken to have done the thing done by the complying member.

(4) This section does not apply to a thing required or allowed to be done under section 131, Chapter 4 Part 2 or section 201, 202, 204, 228K or 228L.

(5) In this section--

"controlling facility activity" means--

(a) in relation to a pipeline--own, control or operate, or intend to own, control or operate, the pipeline (or part of the pipeline); or

(b) in relation to any other covered gas industry facility--own, control or operate the covered gas industry facility (or part of the facility).