New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GAS (NSW) LAW - SECT 11

11 Local agents of foreign service providers

(1) This section applies if--

(a) a service provider is a foreign company; and

(b) the service provider has, under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, appointed a local agent within the meaning of that Act.

(2) The local agent--

(a) is answerable for the doing of all acts, matters and things the service provider is required by or under this Law to do; and

(b) is personally liable to a penalty imposed on the service provider for a breach of a provision of this Law or the Rules if a court hearing the matter is satisfied that the local agent should be so liable.