South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations6A—Exemption from requirement to hold licence
(1) A person who
carries on the operation of a distribution system is not required to be
licensed under the Act if the system consists only of an inset distribution
system.
(2) A person who
carries on the operation of a distribution system is not required to be
licensed under the Act if the system consists only of a prescribed
transmission pipeline.
(3) A person who
carries on the retailing of gas is not required to be licensed under the Act
if the sale of gas is only for the operation of an electricity generating
plant by a person who holds or is required to hold a licence under the
Electricity Act 1996 to carry on the operation of the plant.
(4) Subject to these
regulations, an exemption under this regulation is subject to the condition
that the person comply with any requirement imposed by or under the Act, these
regulations or a code made by the Commission under the
Essential Services Commission Act 2002 as if the person were a gas entity
authorised by a licence to carry on the operations to which the exemption
relates.
(5) The
appropriate regulator may grant an exemption from subregulation (4), or
from specified requirements referred to in that subregulation, on terms and
conditions the appropriate regulator considers appropriate.
(6) In
subregulation (5)—
"appropriate regulator" means—
(a) in
relation to Part 5 of the Act or Part 4 of these regulations or any safety
requirement—the Technical Regulator; or
(b) in
any other case—the Commission.