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Commerce Act 1986

Regulated goods or services - Gas pipeline services - Services controlled by virtue of Commerce (Control of Natural Gas Services) Order 2005

55H: How price-quality regulation under this Part applies after 1 July 2012 (or earlier expiry)

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"What happens to gas pipeline rules after a certain date"

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If you want to know how price-quality regulation applies to a gas pipeline service after it is no longer controlled by the Commerce (Control of Natural Gas Services) Order 2005, this section explains it. You need to think of the expiry of the order as if it were the end of a customised price-quality path. The rules in section 53X will then apply.

The order's expiry date is either the date mentioned in section 55G or an earlier date if a supplier makes a promise about a service that expires on that earlier date. If a supplier makes this promise, the order must stop applying to the service on or before the earlier date. This can happen when the order is revoked or in some other way.

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Part 4Regulated goods or services
Gas pipeline services: Services controlled by virtue of Commerce (Control of Natural Gas Services) Order 2005

55HHow price-quality regulation under this Part applies after 1 July 2012 (or earlier expiry)

  1. This section provides how price-quality regulation under this Part applies to a gas pipeline service after it ceases to be controlled by virtue of the Commerce (Control of Natural Gas Services) Order 2005 (the order).

  2. The expiry of the order must be treated as if it were the expiry of a customised price-quality path, and section 53X applies accordingly.

  3. In this section, the date on which the order expires is—

  4. the expiry date referred to in section 55G; or
    1. if an undertaking is obtained or accepted from a supplier in respect of a service that expires on an earlier date, that earlier date, provided that the order ceases to apply to that service on or before that date (by revocation of the order or otherwise).

      Notes
      • Section 55H: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Commerce Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 70).