South Australian Current Regulations South Australian Current Regulations50—Safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management reports
(1) A person to whom
this Division applies must, within 24 hours after an unplanned
interruption to the supply of gas that affected the supply of gas to 5 or
more but less than 100 customers, lodge with the Technical Regulator a
report stating in relation to that interruption the following:
(a) the
date, time and cause of the interruption;
(b) the
number of customers affected by the interruption;
(c) the
locations (for example, in the case of city customers, the suburbs) of all of
the customers affected;
(d) the
time taken to restore supply to all of the customers affected;
(e) the
time taken to restore supply to the majority of the customers affected.
(2) A person to whom
this Division applies must, within 2 hours after an unplanned
interruption to the supply of gas that affected the supply of gas to
100 or more customers, lodge with the Technical Regulator a report
stating in relation to that interruption the information referred to in the
paragraphs of subregulation (1) that is known to the person at the time
of the report.
(3) Subregulations (1)
and (2) do not apply in relation to—
(a) an
interruption to the supply of gas to a customer if the interruption was in
accordance with an interruptible or curtailable supply contract with the
customer; or
(b) an
interruption to the supply of gas to a customer that occurred at the request
of the customer or that was caused by the customer.
(4) A person to whom
this Division applies must, on or before 31 August in each year, lodge
with the Technical Regulator a report relating to the previous financial year
containing the following information:
(a) a
general description of the circumstances in which gas infrastructure owned or
operated by the person has failed or malfunctioned or been found to be unsafe
and of the action taken to rectify, or to prevent or minimise the risk or
recurrence of, the failure, malfunction or unsafe situation;
(b)
whether the person has been able to comply with all aspects of the person's
safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management plan and whether the
person considers the plan to have been operating effectively.
(5) In this
regulation—
"quarter" means a period of 3 months commencing 1 January,
1 April, 1 July or 1 October.