Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

GAS PIPELINES ACCESS ACT 1998 (NO. 15 OF 1998) - SECT 17

(1)     The Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 of the Commonwealth applies as a law of the Territory to any matter arising in relation to a decision of a Code body under the Gas Pipelines Access (A.C.T.) Law as if that Law were an enactment within the meaning of that Act and not a law of the Territory.

(2)     For the purposes of the application of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 of the Commonwealth as a law of the Territory, a matter arising in relation to a decision of a Code body under the Gas Pipelines Access (A.C.T.) Law —

        (a)     is taken to be a matter arising in relation to laws of the Commonwealth in the same way as if the Gas Pipelines Access (A.C.T.) Law were a law of the Commonwealth; and

        (b)     is taken not to be a matter arising in relation to laws of the Territory.