Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GAS (QUEENSLAND) LAW - SECT 91KA

91KA Supply interruption or disconnection in compliance with AEMO’s direction

(1) A distributor incurs no civil monetary liability for interrupting or disconnecting the supply of natural gas to an end user in compliance or purported compliance with a direction given by AEMO under Rules related to user exit from a regulated retail gas market.

(2) The immunity does not extend to an act or omission done or made in bad faith or through negligence.

(3) 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 maximum amount prescribed by the Regulations.

(4) The Regulations may, for the purposes of subsection (3) —

(a) prescribe a limitation of liability that is limited in its application to persons, events, losses or periods specified in the Regulations;

(b) prescribe a limitation of liability that varies in amount according to the persons to whom, or the events, circumstances, losses or periods to which, it is expressed to apply;

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

(5) In this section—

"distributor" means the service provider that provides pipeline services by means of a distribution pipeline and includes an officer, employee or agent of the service provider.