Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GAS (QUEENSLAND) LAW - SECT 91BQ

91BQ Immunity

(1) A protected person incurs no civil monetary liability—

(a) for failing to accept gas for injection into, or to make gas available for withdrawal from, the declared transmission system; or

(b) for failing to make the declared transmission system available to accept the injection of gas into it, or the withdrawal of gas from it; or

(c) in the case of AEMO—for failing to accept gas for injection into, or to make gas available for withdrawal from, a declared distribution system,

if the failure arises out of an accident or cause beyond the protected person’s control.

(2) A protected person may, by written agreement with another person, limit or exclude the operation of subsection (1) in relation to the parties to the agreement.

(3) In this section—

"protected person" means—

(a) AEMO; or

(b) a service provider for the whole or part of the declared transmission system.