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SECURITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ACT 2018 - SECT 12

Meaning of critical gas asset

  (1)   An asset is a critical gas asset if it is any of the following:

  (a)   a gas processing facility that has a capacity of at least 300 terajoules per day or any other capacity prescribed by the rules;

  (b)   a gas storage facility that has a maximum daily withdrawal capacity of at least 75 terajoules per day or any other maximum daily withdrawal capacity prescribed by the rules;

  (c)   a network or system for the distribution of gas to ultimately service at least 100,000 customers or any other number of customers prescribed by the rules;

  (d)   a gas transmission pipeline that is critical to ensuring the security and reliability of a gas market, in accordance with subsection   (2);

  (e)   a control room, or any other asset, that is required to operate a gas transmission pipeline covered by paragraph   (d).

Note:   The rules may prescribe that a specified critical gas asset is not a critical infrastructure asset (see section   9).

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(d), the rules may prescribe:

  (a)   specified gas transmission pipelines that are critical to ensuring the security and reliability of a gas market; or

  (b)   requirements for a gas transmission pipeline to be critical to ensuring the security and reliability of a gas market.



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