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be extracted.
State of Origin means the State in which an allocation under a tagged entitlement will be made.
wholesaler means an authority responsible for recovering costs associated with operating headworks from which allocations are supplied within a State of Origin.

Note    Several other words and expressions used in this Protocol have the meaning given by the Act (including the Agreement), for example:
 allocation
 Authority
 Contracting Government
 licensing authority
 State
 tagged trade.

6 Notices

 (1) A notice under this Protocol must be given in writing.

Note   Written notices may be given electronically: see section 9 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999.

 (2) The Authority must, in consultation with each State Contracting Government and, where appropriate, any relevant licensing authority and any relevant retailer, determine the form and content of a notice required to be given to or by the Authority under this Protocol.

7 Processes and principles

 (1) The Authority and each SOD retailer, SOO retailer and licensing authority must follow the processes in the steps set out in Schedule 1 of this Protocol.

 (2) State of Origin wholesalers should adopt the principle that bulk water charges be billed in the same way as State entitlement holder are charged, that is, directly to the interstate owner of the share as at the date of billing.

8 Accounting for use of tagged allocations

  After tagging has occurred, the Authority, each SOD retailer, each SOO retailer and each licensing authority must, in relation to each allocation, follow the processes in the steps set out in Schedule 2 of this Protocol.

9 Review of Protocol

 (1) An independent auditor appointed under subclause 16 (5) of Schedule D to the Agreement may consider the operation of this Protocol and, if the auditor considers it appropriate, recommend that the Authority review the Protocol.

 (2) The Authority must review, and if appropriate, consider amending this Protocol if:
 (a) the Agreement is amended in a way that may be relevant to interstate transfers; or
 (b) Commonwealth or State legislation, or an instrument under such legislation, is made or amended in a way that may affect interstate transfers; or
 (c) any report about the operation of Schedule D to the Agreement or the markets for interstate transfers, prepared under clause 18 of Schedule D to the Agreement, indicates that a review of this Protocol is appropriate; or
 (d) an independent auditor mentioned in subsection (1) recommends, in connection with his or her appointment as an independent auditor, that a review is appropriate.

Schedule 1 Processes and principles
(Section 7)

Step 1 Lodging applications

 (1) An application must be lodged with the SOO retailer.

 (2) An SOO retailer that receives a duly completed