Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) Subject to this Division, AEMO must make and keep up to date a protocol (a gas emergency protocol ) that—
(a) classifies gas emergencies into categories having regard to their scale, effect, or any other relevant matter or circumstance;
(b) describes the actions to be taken by AEMO, Energy Safe Victoria, Registered participants, and any other relevant party for each category of gas emergency;
(c) sets out the customers or classes of customers to be curtailed in the case of each category of gas emergency and the order of their curtailment;
(d) describes the matters or things to be taken into account in determining who will be curtailed in the case of each category of gas emergency and the order of their curtailment;
(e) sets out the order of restoration of supply of gas to customers or classes of customers;
(f) describes the matters or things to be taken into account in determining the order of restoration of supply of gas to customers or classes of customers;
(g) provides for rationing of the supply of gas and the basis on which it will be administered;
(h) provides for how gas emergencies are to be managed and by whom;
(i) provides for any other matter relating to a gas emergency.
(2) AEMO must publish a gas emergency protocol it makes on its website.
(3) Before making a gas emergency protocol, AEMO must consult with the Minister, Energy Safe Victoria and Registered participants.
(4) In making a gas emergency protocol, AEMO must have regard to the economic and social needs of the Victorian community.
S. 54 inserted by No. 23/2009 s. 20.