South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts21—AER—authorisation of preparatory steps
(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 one of the following (the
"authorising law"):
(i)
the National Electricity (South Australia) Law ;
(ii)
the National Electricity (South Australia) Regulations ;
(iii)
this Act;
(iv)
an instrument made or having effect under this Act; and
(b) the
preparatory step would have been required under the authorising law if the
amendments of the National Electricity Law made by the Statutes Amendment
(National Energy Retail Law) Act 2011 had started to apply under this Act
as a law of South Australia; and
(c) the
AER takes the preparatory step—
(i)
on or after the time that the amendments were enacted;
but
(ii)
before the time that the amendments started to apply
under this Act as a law of South Australia.
(2) For the purposes
of the authorising law, the AER is taken to have complied with the requirement
to take the preparatory step.