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DAMPIER TO BUNBURY PIPELINE ACT 1997 - SECT 17

17 .         Certain contracts validated

        (1)         An assigned contract has effect as if, before the assignment —

            (a)         the terms of the instrument of contract (including any terms incorporated by reference) were authorised by the Gas Corporation Act 1994 2 and the Gas Transmission Regulations 1994 3 , and prevailed to the extent that they contained any inconsistency with those written laws; and

            (b)         any provision of the Gas Transmission Regulations 1994 3 purporting to affect the contract in a way consistent with the terms of the contract were authorised by the Gas Corporation Act 1994 2 and prevailed to the extent that it contained any inconsistency with that Act.

        (2)         In subsection (1) —

        assigned contract means a contract for access to gas transmission capacity, or for related matters, the rights and liabilities under which are assigned from the corporation to the assignee, except that it does not include an exempt contract as defined by section 20(5).



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