Event leading to Capacity Shortfall of greater than five days. (a) If ARTC expects that an event resulting in a Capacity Shortfall will be for a duration of more than five days or an event resulting in a Capacity Shortfall subsequently has a duration of more than five days, and there will be insufficient Capacity to meet all remaining unconditional Capacity entitlements held by all access holders in that Month after taking into account likely usage of access holders with an allocation period of a Quarter, ARTC will allocate the Capacity available in accordance with the following principles:
(i) Capacity will be allocated first to passenger services in accordance with ARTC’s obligations under section 88L of the Transport Administration Act 1988 (NSW).
(ii) To the extent practicable, contracted path usages from load points not affected by the Capacity Shortfall (for example, load points east of the event causing the Capacity Shortfall), will not be reduced by the Capacity Shortfall and access holders should continue to be able to use contracted path usages originating from unaffected load points.
(iii) ARTC will, to the extent practicable, reduce the number of path usages for each affected load point (for example, a load point west of the event causing the Capacity Shortfall where the Access Holder has Capacity Entitlements remaining in that month) with the objective that each affected load point will at the end of the Month have borne an equitable pro-rata share of the Capacity Shortfall.
(b) ARTC will promptly inform the HVCCC of the result of the allocation of Capacity under clause 6.3(a).
