AER – Final – Explanatory Note on Pipeline Regulatory Determinations and Elections Guide – May 2024 (Explanatory note)

On 15 March 2024, we published a draft of a revised Guide, which contained a number of minor amendments to the Guide for consultation.

The amendments were made in relation to guidance about information requests during form of regulation reviews and the timing for stakeholders to make written submissions during these reviews. 

The amendments:

• clarified the scope of information we can ask under rule 16 of the National Gas Rules 
• included new information about the use of compulsory notices under section 42 of the National Gas Law in a form of regulation review
• updated the consultation process and the timing for stakeholders to provide written submissions
• reflected the new National Gas Objective 
• made minor amendments to terms to reflect amendments to the National Gas Law on 7 March 2024 to cover hydrogen, biomethane and other renewable gases under the national gas regulatory framework.  

The proposed changes were extracted in a single document, and shown in yellow highlight in the draft of the revised Guide. We invited stakeholders to provide submissions by 5 April 2024 and received three submissions. 

The finalised revised guide and explanatory note were published on 16 May 2024. The finalised explanatory note explains our responses to submissions raised by stakeholders and the changes that we have made.