Electricity Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 1998 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 1998 No. 327 Electricity Act 1994 ELECTRICITY AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 4) 1998 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Insertion of new ch 8, pt 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 PART 5—FINALISING THE POOL 349 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 350 Approval of transitional Market Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 351 Administrator’s function—regional system control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 352 Transitional Market Code to be open for inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 353 Complying with transitional Market Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 354 When part expires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

s1 2 s4 Electricity Amendment (No. 4) No. 327, 1998 ˙ Short title 1. This regulation may be cited as the Electricity Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 1998 . ˙ Commencement 2. This regulation commences on 13 December 1998. ˙ Regulation amended 3. This regulation amends the Electricity Regulation 1994 . ˙ Insertion of new ch 8, pt 5 4 . After section 348— insert— ‘ PART 5—FINALISING THE POOL ˙ ‘ Definitions ‘ 349. In this part— “administrator” means Queensland Electricity Transmission Corporation Limited (ACN 078 849 233). “Market Code” means the Queensland Interim Market Code in force under section 92F(1) of the Actimmediately before the commencement of this section. “pool” means the pool in existence under the Act immediately before the commencement of this section. “transitional Market Code” means the Transitional Queensland Interim Market Code approved under section 350. ˙ ‘ Approval of transitional Market Code ‘ 350.(1) The Minister may approve a code of conduct called the Transitional Queensland Interim Market Code to finalise the administration

s4 3 s4 Electricity Amendment (No. 4) No. 327, 1998 of the pool. ‘ (2) The Minister must notify the approval of the transitional Market Code by gazette notice. ‘ (3) The approval takes effect— (a) on the day the notice is gazetted; or (b) a later day stated in the notice. ˙ ‘ Administrator’s function—regional system control ‘ 351.(1) The administrator has the function of administering the transitional Market Code. ‘ (2) The function mentioned in subsection (1) is a prescribed function under section 7(d) of the Act. ˙ ‘ Transitional Market Code to be open for inspection ‘ 352.(1) The regulator must keep a copy of the transitional Market Code available for inspection at the office of the regulator at any time when the regulator’s office is open for public business. 1 ‘ (2) The regulator must give a copy of the transitional Market Code to anyone on payment of an amount that— (a) the regulator considers reasonable; and (b) is not more than the reasonable cost of providing the copy. ˙ ‘ Complying with transitional Market Code ‘ 353.(1) This section applies to an authority or special approval if the holder of the authority or approval is an entity that, immediately before the commencement of this section, was a code participant as defined by the Act immediately before 13 December 1998. ‘ (2) The authority or special approval is taken to include a condition that the holder must comply with— 1 The regulator’s office is at 61 Mary Street, Brisbane. However, the code is also accessible on the web site s4 4 s4 Electricity Amendment (No. 4) No. 327, 1998 (a) the transitional Market Code; and (b) a direction that the administrator gives the holder under the transitional Market Code. ‘ (3) In this section— “authority” means a generation authority, transmission authority, distribution authority or retail authority. ˙ ‘ When part expires ‘ 354. This part expires 3 months after it commences.’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 10 December 1998. 2. Notified in the gazette on 11 December 1998. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Mines and Energy. © State of Queensland 1998