South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations15C—Safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management reports
(1) A person to whom
this Division applies must, within 21 working days after the end of each
quarter, lodge with the Technical Regulator a report stating in relation to
each unplanned interruption to the supply of gas during that quarter that
affected the supply of gas to 5 or more but less than 100 customers the
following:
(a) the
date, time and cause of the interruption;
(b) the
number of customers affected by the interruption;
(c) the
time taken to restore supply to all of the customers affected;
(d) the
time taken to restore supply to the majority of the customers affected.
(2) A person to whom
this Division applies must, within 2 working days after an unplanned
interruption to the supply of gas that affected the supply of gas to 100 or
more customers, lodge with the Technical Regulator a report stating in
relation to that interruption the information referred to in the paragraphs of
subregulation (1).
(3) Subregulations (1)
and (2) do not apply in relation to—
(a) an
interruption to the supply of gas to a customer if the interruption was in
accordance with an interruptible or curtailable supply contract with the
customer; or
(b) an
interruption to the supply of gas to a customer that occurred at the request
of the customer or that was caused by the customer.
(4) A person to whom
this Division applies must, on or before 31 August in each year, lodge with
the Technical Regulator a report relating to the previous financial year
containing the following information:
(a) a
general description of the circumstances in which gas infrastructure owned or
operated by the person has failed or malfunctioned or been found to be unsafe
and of the action taken to rectify, or to prevent or minimise the risk or
recurrence of, the failure, malfunction or unsafe situation;
(b)
whether the person has been able to comply with all aspects of the person's
safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management plan and whether the
person considers the plan to have been operating effectively.
(5) In this
regulation—
"quarter" means a period of 3 months commencing 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or
1 October.