New Zealand Acts

GAS (INFORMATION DISCLOSURE AND PENALTIES) AMENDMENT ACT 2021

- As at 12 July 2021
- Act 30 of 2021

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 1 - Amendments to Gas Act 1992

   3.      Principal Act
   4.      Section 2 amended (Interpretation)
   5.      New section 3A inserted (Transitional, savings, and related provisions)
   6.      Section 43B amended (Outline of Part)
   7.      Section 43C amended (Outline of regulation-making powers)
   8.      Section 43D amended (Interpretation)
   9.      Section 43F amended (Gas governance regulations for wholesale market, processing facilities, transmission, and distribution of gas)
   10.     Section 43I amended (Which gas governance regulations can be made if there is no industry body or Commission)
   11.     Section 43J amended (Which gas governance regulations can be made if there is industry body but no Commission)
   12.     Section 43S amended (Supplementary empowering provision for regulations and rules)
   13.     Section 43T repealed
   14.     New section 43TA inserted (Regulations may provide for pecuniary penalties for consumers (other than domestic consumers))
   15.     Section 43V amended (Privileges protected)
   16.     Section 43X amended (Rulings Panel may make certain orders)
   17.     New section 43YA inserted (Offence to breach compliance orders)
   18.     Section 43ZP amended (What Minister can do with industry body recommendations about wholesale market, processing facilities, transmission, and distribution of gas)
   19.     New subpart 5 of Part 4A inserted
   20.     New Schedule 1AA inserted

   PART 2 - Amendments to regulations

           SUBPART 1 - Gas Governance (Compliance) Regulations 2008

   21.     Amendments to Gas Governance (Compliance) Regulations 2008
   22.     Regulation 51 revoked (Offence to breach compliance orders)
   23.     Regulation 52 amended (Rulings Panel may order payment of civil pecuniary penalty up to $20,000)

           SUBPART 2 - Gas Governance (Critical Contingency Management) Regulations 2008

   24.     Amendments to Gas Governance (Critical Contingency Management) Regulations 2008
   25.     Regulations 82A and 82B revoked
           New Schedule 1AA inserted