Corporations Laws Amendment (2014 Measures No. 1) Regulation 2014 (33 of 2014)

Schedule 2   Gas trading exchange

Payments System and Netting Regulations 2001

5   After regulation 3

Insert:

3A Declaration under definition of market netting contract

(1) For paragraph (b) of the definition of market netting contract in section 5 of the Act, a gas trading exchange agreement is declared to be a market netting contract for the purposes of the Act.

(2) In this regulation:

AEMO means Australian Energy Market Operator Limited (ACN 072 010 327).

gas trading exchange means a facility:

(a) established by AEMO exercising its functions under subsection 91BRK(1) of the National Gas Law set out in the Schedule to the National Gas (South Australia) Act 2008 (SA); and

(b) through which persons may elect to buy and sell natural gas or related goods or services (including pipeline capacity).

gas trading exchange agreement means an agreement:

(a) that relates to participation in, and the operation and administration of, a gas trading exchange; and

(b) to which AEMO, or a person appointed by AEMO to operate the gas trading exchange, and a person who becomes a member of the exchange, are parties.