31. Amendment of section 32

In the Gas Act, in section 32, replace subsection (9) with —“(9) If in any proceedings for any offence under subsection (7), the defence involves acting on information supplied by any of the following:

a gas transporter;

any person to whom any infrastructure described in subsection (10) belongs or that manages or controls such infrastructure,then the person charged is not, without permission of the court, entitled to rely on that defence unless the person charged has, within 14 clear days before the hearing, served on the prosecutor a written notice giving such information as was then in the possession of the person charged identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who supplied the person charged with the information.”.