New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GAS (NSW) LAW - SECT 226

226 Immunity of persons giving information to AEMO or AER

(1) A person who gives Bulletin Board information to AEMO or the AER incur any civil monetary liability for an act or omission in giving that information unless the act or omission is done or made in bad faith or through negligence.

(2) The civil monetary liability for an act or omission of a kind referred to in subsection (1) done or made through negligence may not exceed the prescribed maximum amount.

(3) The Regulations may, for the purposes of subsection (2), without limitation do all or any of the following--

(a) prescribe a maximum amount that is limited in its application to persons, events, circumstances, losses or periods specified in the Regulations;

(b) prescribe maximum amounts that vary in their application according to the persons to whom or the events, circumstances, losses or periods to which they are expressed to apply;

(c) prescribe the manner in which a maximum amount is to be divided amongst claimants.

(4) A person mentioned in subsection (1) may enter into an agreement with another person varying or excluding the operation of a provision of this section and, to the extent of that agreement, that provision does not apply.