Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by
this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
(2) Without limiting
the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may apply the
provisions of regulations made under section 26(2) of the Energy
Coordination Act 1994 , with such modifications (if any) as are
prescribed, to the sale or supply of gas within a distribution area to persons
who —
(a) are
tariff consumers within the meaning of section 25; or
(b) are
not contestable customers within the meaning of section 91(1) of the Gas
Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Act 1998.
(3) Regulations made
for the purposes of subsection (2) may require a person selling or
supplying the gas to offer persons described in paragraph (a) or (b) of
that subsection a form of contract that has been approved by the Coordinator.
(4) In
subsection (2) —
distribution area means the area to which a
distribution licence granted under Part 2A of the Energy Coordination
Act 1994 to —
(a) the
corporation or a subsidiary; or
(b) the
corporate vehicle or a subsidiary of it within the meaning of the Corporations
Law,
applies.
[Subdivisions 1-8 omitted under the Reprints Act 1984
s. 7(4)(e).]