Victorian Current Acts

ESSENTIAL SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 76

    (1)     On the day on which section 22 of the amending Act comes into operation, the following documents are taken to be a Code of Practice made under section 47(1)—

        (a)     the document entitled "Code of Conduct for Marketing Retail Energy" published by the Commission in October 2004, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day;

        (b)     the document entitled "Electricity Customer Metering Code" published by the Commission on 13 October 2014, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day;

        (c)     the document entitled "Electricity Customer Transfer Code" published by the Commission on 13 October 2014, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day;

        (d)     the document entitled "Electricity Distribution Code" published by the Commission on 1 January 2006, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day;    

        (e)     the document entitled "Electricity System Code" published by the Commission in October 2000, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day;

        (f)     the document entitled "Energy Retail Code" published by the Commission in August 2004, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day;

        (g)     the document entitled "Gas Distribution System Code" published by the Commission with effect on 1 July 1997, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day;

        (h)     the document entitled "Public Lighting Code" published by the Commission in December 2015, as amended from time to time and in effect immediately before that day.

    (2)     For the purposes of section 47(4B), a Code of Practice referred to in subsection (1) is taken to have been made on the day on which section 22 of the amending Act comes into operation.

    (3)     Despite section 50, a Code of Practice referred to in subsection (1) is revoked on 31 December 2025, unless it is revoked sooner.

    (4)     Unless the context otherwise requires, on and after the day on which section 22 of the amending Act comes into operation, any reference in any document (however described) to a document referred to in subsection (1) is taken to be a reference to the Code of Practice that the document is taken to be under that subsection.

    (5)     In this section—

"amending Act" means the Essential Services Commission (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Amendment Act 2021 .

New s. 77 inserted by No. 41/2021 s. 39.