Electricity Distribution Amendment Regulations 2007 (WA)

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EN305*

Regulations 2007.

Electricity Transmission and Distribution Systems

(Access) Act 1994

Electricity Distribution Amendment

Regulations 2007

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor in
Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Electricity Distribution Amendment

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2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows:

(a)	regulations 1 and 2—on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations - on 1 July 2007.

3.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Electricity
Distribution Regulations 1997*•

[* Reprint 1 as at 4 August 2006.

For amendments to 12 June 2007 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2006, Table 4.]

4.            Regulation 3 amended

Regulation 3(1) is amended as follows:

(a) deleting "clause 6(3)(b) of Schedule 6 to the Act" and

in the definition of "distribution price schedule" by " regulation 19(2)(a)

(b) in the definition of "Prices and Charges Paper" by deleting "clause 6(3)(c) of Schedule 6 to the Act;" and inserting instead -

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5.            Regulation 5 amended

Regulation 5(2), (3), (3a) and (4) are repealed.

6.            Regulation 6 replaced

Regulation 6 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted instead -

6.            Restricted application of regulations

The application of these regulations is limited to -

(a)	distribution access agreements in operation on 1 July 2007; and
(b)	the parties to those agreements; and
(c)	matters relating to the provision of distribution access services under those agreements,

and references in these regulations to a distribution access agreement, a corporation or a user are to be construed accordingly.

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7.            Regulation 12 amended

Regulation 12(1)(a)(i) and (b)(i) are each amended by inserting after "the Act" -

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(as in force before the repeal of that
Schedule by the Electricity
Transmission and Distribution Systems
(Repeal and Related Provisions)
Regulations 2007)

8.            Regulation 15 amended

Regulation 15(1) is amended by inserting after "the Act" -

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(as in force before the repeal of that Schedule by the
Electricity Transmission and Distribution Systems
(Repeal and Related Provisions) Regulations 200 7)

9.            Regulation 19 amended

Regulation 19(1) is repealed and the following subregulations are inserted instead -

(1)	Pricing methods adopted by a corporation in relation to the provision of distribution access services must be consistent with the price control provisions and pricing methods set Out in the access arrangement for the South West Interconnected Network approved under the Electricity Networks Access Code 2004.
(2)	A corporation must -

(a)	services that provides sufficient detail to allow
of indicative prices for distribution access prepare and make publicly available a schedule
users to calculate the electricity distribution prices likely to apply in any reasonable circumstance; and
(b)	make publicly available such details of its pricing methods as are sufficient to indicate to users how prices for distribution access services are established.

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10.          Regulation 46 amended

Regulation 46(1)(a), (b) and (c) are each amended by inserting after "the Act" —

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(as in force before the repeal of that Schedule
by the Electricity Transmission and
Distribution Systems (Repeal and Related
Provisions) Regulations 2007)

11.          Regulation 47 amended

Regulation 47 is amended by deleting "the Act:" and inserting instead —

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the Act (as continued in effect by the Electricity
Transmission and Distribution Systems (Repeal and
Related Provisions) Regulations 2007)—

12.          Regulation 51 amended

Regulation 51(2) is amended as follows:

(a)	by deleting "is" and inserting instead — " was ";
(b)	by inserting after "the Act" —

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(as in force before the repeal of that Schedule by the
Electricity Transmission and Distribution Systems

(Repeal and Related Provisions) Regulations 2007)

By Command of the Lieutenant Governor and

deputy of the Governor,

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