Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if—
(a) the AER is required to do something (a preparatory step ) before making a decision or making an instrument under the National Energy Retail Law (Victoria), or this Act, or an instrument made or having effect under this Act (the authorising law ); and
(b) the AER takes the preparatory step—
(i) at or after the time that the South Australian Act was enacted; but
(ii) before the time that the applicable NERL provisions as modified by any regulations made under section 11 first started to apply under this Act as a law of Victoria.
(2) For the purposes of the authorising law, the AER is taken to have complied with the requirement to take the preparatory step.
Note
See also the definition of instrument in clause 10 of Schedule 2 to the National Gas Law which is set out in the Schedule to the National Gas (South Australia) Act 2008 of South Australia. Under section 8 of the National Energy Retail Law (Victoria), Schedule 2 to the National Gas Law applies to the interpretation of that National Energy Retail Law (Victoria), the National Regulations and the Rules.