Western Australian Current Regulations

NATIONAL THIRD PARTY ACCESS CODE FOR NATURAL GAS PIPELINE SYSTEMS - REG 3.17

3.17         Review and Expiry of the Access Arrangement

                An Access Arrangement must include:

            (a)         a date upon which the Service Provider must submit revisions to the Access Arrangement (a Revisions Submission Date); and

            (b)         a date upon which the next revisions to the Access Arrangement are intended to commence (a Revisions Commencement Date).

                In approving the Revisions Submissions Date and Revisions Commencement Date, the Relevant Regulator must have regard to the objectives in section 8.1, and may in making its decision on an Access Arrangement (or revisions to an Access Arrangement), if it considers it necessary having had regard to the objectives in section 8.1:

                  (i)         require an earlier or later Revisions Submission Date and Revisions Commencement Date than proposed by the Service Provider in its proposed Access Arrangement;

                  (ii)         require that specific major events be defined that trigger an obligation on the Service Provider to submit revisions prior to the Revisions Submission Date.