Electricity Distribution Amendment Regulations 2006 (WA)

378 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 20 ,January 2006

Regulations 2006.

EN302*

Electricity Corporation Act 1994

Electricity Distribution Amendment

Regulations 2006

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator in Executive
Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Electricity Distribution Amendment

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2.            The regulations amended

The amendment in these regulations is to the Electricity
Distribution Regulations 1997* .

[* Published in Gazette 1 July 1997, P. 3335-406.

For amendments to 6 January 2006 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2004, Table 4, p. 92.]

3.             Regulation 15 amended

After regulation 15(3) the following subregulations are inserted

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(4)

Western Power is taken to have given itself a grant of access under clause 2 of Schedule 6 to the Act and to have entered into a distribution access agreement on the terms and conditions set out in an access offer when the general manager of a division of Western Power responsible for generation of electricity (or a delegate of that general manager) notifies in writing the general manager of the division of Western Power responsible for operating the electricity distribution network (or a delegate of that general manager) that Western Power as a user agrees to the terms of the access offer.

(5)

To avoid doubt, the general manager of a division of Western Power responsible for generation of electricity (or a delegate of that general manager) and the general manager of the division of Western Power responsible for operating the electricity distribution network (or a delegate of that general manager) may, subject to these regulations, vary the terms of a deemed distribution

access agreement under subregulation (4).

(6) A deemed distribution access agreement under
subregulation (2) or (4) may provide for the transfer of
all or part of the electricity distribution capacity
committed to the division of Western Power
responsible for trading of electricity (including
electricity distribution capacity committed to
WP Trader under regulation 52) to the division of
Western Power responsible for generation of
electricity.

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator,

G. M. PIKE, Clerk of the Executive Council.