12—Amendment of section 44—Provision of funding
Section 44(1)—delete subsection (1) and substitute:
(1) The funding
requirements placed on the AEMC and AEMO under sections 42 and 43 are subject
to the following additional provisions:
(a) the
AEMC may allocate some or all of its costs under those sections to AEMO after
taking into account the extent to which AEMO's functions relate to the
provision of gas services within each of the various Australian jurisdictions
(and AEMO must accept responsibility for those costs as allocated by the
AEMC);
(b) the
amounts to be provided by the AEMC and AEMO (after taking into account the
operation of paragraph (a)) are to be made available under a scheme
agreed between the AEMC, AEMO and the Panel or, in default of an agreement, on
a quarterly basis.