History Details

Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline Act 1997

24 December 1999 - 31 December 1999

Notes

^1.This is a compilation of the Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline Act 1997 and includes all amendments effected by the other Acts referred to in the following Table.

Table of Acts

Act	Number and Year	Assent	Commencement	Miscellaneous
Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline Act 1997, Schedule 4, Division 1	53 of 1997	12 December 1997	Sch 4, Div 1: operative 30 March 1998 (see clause 2 and Gazette 27 March 1998 p.1765); Sch 4, Div 4, (except cl. 16, 17(1) and (2), 18 and 20): operative on 'pipeline transfer time'; 11.00 am 25 March 1998 (see Gazette 25 March 1998 p.1655); Sch 4, Div 6: operative 30 March 1998; (see clause 30 and Gazette 27 March 1998 p.1765) balance on Assent
Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Act 1998, section 89 (Schedule 3, Division 2)	65 of 1998	15 January 1999	Subdivision 2 of Division 2 of Schedule 3: 9 February 1999 (see section 2 and Gazette 8 February 1999 p.441); Subdivision 3 of Division 2 to Schedule 3 operative 1 January 2000 (see clause 5)	Clause 4(2) of Schedule 3: transitional ²^; Clause 9 of Schedule 3: transitional ³
Gas Corporation (Business Disposal) Act 1999, sections 39 to 44	58 of 1999	24 December 1999	24 December 1999 (see section 2(1))

² Clause 4(2) of Schedule 3 to the Gas Pipelines Access(Western Australia) Act 1998 (No. 65 of 1998) reads as follows ¾

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(2) Any proceedings for the hearing and determination of a dispute by the referee, as defined in section 46 of the principal Act immediately before the commencement of clause 3, that have been commenced but not completed before that commencement, may be continued and determined by the referee, and any appeal may be brought and disposed of, as if clause 3 and this clause had not been enacted.

Clause 9 of Schedule 3 of the

Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Act 1998

(No. 65 of 1998) reads as follows

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9. Transitional provisions

(1) Despite the repeals effected by clauses 7 and 8, the repealed access scheme continues to apply in relation to the privatized DBNGP system, as defined in section 3 of the principal Act, until an Access Arrangement is approved under the Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Law in relation to that system.

(2) The Governor may make regulations ¾

(a) modifying the repealed access scheme for the purposes of subclause (1); and

(b) making such provision as is necessary or expedient for the transition from the repealed access scheme to the Gas Pipelines Access (Western Australia) Law including without limitation provision in relation to ¾

(i) matters in progress; and

(ii) dispute proceedings that have been begun.

(3) In this clause ¾

}repealed access scheme~ means ¾

(a) Part 5 of the principal Act repealed by clause 7;

(b) Schedule 1 to that Act repealed by clause 8;

(d) the Gas Referee Regulations 1995.

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