Electricity Supply Industry Amendment Regulations 2016
I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 .23 February 2016
C. WARNER
Governor
By His Excellency’s Command,
MATTHEW GROOM
Minister for Energy
1Short titleThese regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment Regulations 2016 . 2CommencementThese regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette. 3Principal RegulationsIn these regulations, the Electricity Supply Industry Regulations 2008 are referred to as the Principal Regulations. 4Regulation 7 amended (Work of minor environmental impact) Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended as follows: (a) by omitting from paragraph (f) "electricity." and substituting "electricity;"; (b) by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (f) : (g) the installation, erection, removal, repair, maintenance, modification, or use, on land, of any electricity-generating plant that – (i) is not used, or intended by the Hydro-Electric Corporation to be used, to generate electricity for more than 12 months after the plant is installed or erected on the land; and (ii) is installed or erected on land that is, or on land that is adjacent to, land on which there is already situated an electricity-generating plant, substation or switchyard or on which not less than 200 gigawatt hours of electricity was consumed during the 2015 calendar year. Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 24 February 2016
These regulations are administered in the Department of State Growth.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the regulation) These regulations prescribe certain temporary electricity generators to be of minor environmental impact for the purposes of sections 52(5) and 57(b) of the