Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00399:section:13l
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00399
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 13L
Character Range: 51105–51972

13L  Authorisation of preparatory steps for instruments or decisions of Australian Energy Regulator—energy retail laws
 (1) This section applies if:
 (a) the Australian Energy Regulator is required to do something (a preparatory step) before making a decision or making an instrument under the National Energy Retail Law and Regulations (Commonwealth) (the authorising law); and
 (b) the Australian Energy Regulator takes the preparatory step:
 (i) on or after the time that the National Energy Retail Law (South Australia) Act 2011 of South Australia was enacted; but
 (ii) before the time that the South Australian Energy Retail Legislation first started to apply under this Act as a law of the Commonwealth.
 (2) For the purposes of the authorising law, the Australian Energy Regulator is taken to have complied with the requirement to take the preparatory step.