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MOOMBA-SYDNEY PIPELINE SYSTEM SALE REPEAL REGULATIONS 2010 (SLI NO 84 OF 2010)

 

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

 

Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 84

 

 

Moomba-Sydney Pipeline System Sale Act 1994

Moomba-Sydney Pipeline System Sale Repeal Regulations 2010

 

The Moomba-Sydney Pipeline System Sale Act 1994 (the Act) relates to the sale of the Moomba-Sydney natural gas pipeline system (the Moomba pipeline) and related purposes.

 

Section 174 of the Act provides that the Governor‑General may make regulations, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

 

These Regulations repealed the Moomba-Sydney Pipeline System Sale Regulations (the Principal Regulations) (which were made in 1996), which set out procedural matters relating to the Moomba pipeline access regime.

 

The provisions in the Act that were supported by the Principal Regulations were repealed by the Gas Pipeline Access (Commonwealth) Act 1998. The Principal Regulations were therefore redundant.

 

The repeal of the Principal Regulations was consistent with the Australian Government’s deregulation agenda.

 

The Act specifies no conditions that needed to be satisfied before the power to make the Regulations could be exercised.

 

The Regulations are a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

 

The Regulations commenced on the day after they were registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

 

These Regulations are of a machinery nature and did not substantially alter existing arrangements because the Principal Regulations were redundant and had no ongoing effect. Therefore, no consultation with industry was undertaken.

 

 


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