Victorian Current Acts

ESSENTIAL SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 48

    (1)     A Code of Practice may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any authority or body whether—

        (a)     wholly or partially or as amended by the Code of Practice; or

        (b)     as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the Code of Practice is made or at any time before then; or

        (c)     as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time.

    (2)     If a Code of Practice has applied, adopted or incorporated any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time and that document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is at any time amended, until the Commission causes notice to be published in the Government Gazette of that amendment, the document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is to be taken not to have been so amended.

    (3)     Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), a Code of Practice may apply, adopt or incorporate by reference any benchmarks, standards or technical references.

New s. 49 inserted by No. 15/2008 s. 21, substituted by Nos 41/2021 s. 23, 6/2024 s. 28.