New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GAS (NSW) LAW - SECT 8AB

8AB Meaning of small shipper

(1) A small shipper is a user or prospective user--

(a) who is, or seeks to be, a party to a contract with a service provider for the provision of a pipeline service by means of a pipeline; and

(b) for whom the total daily pipeline capacity right provided, or sought to be provided, under 1 or more contracts with the same service provider and by means of the same pipeline is not more than--

(i) the daily pipeline capacity right prescribed for this definition by the Regulations; or

(ii) if no daily pipeline capacity right is prescribed by the Regulations, the lesser of the following amounts--

(A) 5 terajoules per day;

(B) 20% of the pipeline's nameplate rating.

(2) However, a small shipper does not include a corporation with a market capitalisation of more than $500 000 000 or a related body corporate of the corporation.

Note--: See also section 19A in relation to related bodies corporate.

(3) In this section--

"nameplate rating" , in relation to a pipeline, means the maximum daily capacity of the pipeline under normal operating conditions.