Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RENEWABLE ENERGY (ELECTRICITY) ACT 2000 - SECT 12B

  (1)   If:

  (a)   the Regulator receives an application that is properly made under section   12A (about an application for provisional accreditation of a power station); and

  (b)   the Regulator is satisfied that some or all of the proposed components of the system would, if assembled, be a power station for the purposes of this Act;

the Regulator must, by written notice given to the applicant:

  (c)   specify which of those proposed components (the provisional components ) would, if assembled, be a power station for the purposes of this Act; and

  (d)   specify that, if an application is properly made under section   13 in relation to the power station:

  (i)   the Regulator will determine that the components specified in that application are taken to be a power station for the purposes of this Act if the Regulator is satisfied that they are not materially different from the provisional components; and

  (ii)   the power station will be eligible for accreditation if subsection   14(2) is satisfied.

Refusal

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the Regulator receives an application that is properly made under section   12A; and

  (b)   the Regulator is not satisfied that some or all of the proposed components of the system would, if assembled, be a power station for the purposes of this Act;

the Regulator must, by written notice given to the applicant, refuse the application.

Regulations

  (3)   Regulations made for the purposes of section   14, in relation to determining the components of a power station, apply in a corresponding way to this section.