Wholesale Electricity Market Rules - Amending Rules (3 February 2006) (WA)

3 February 2006 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 517

ENERGY

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ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2004

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKET)

REGULATIONS 2004

WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKET RULES

Amending Rules

I, Alan Carpenter, Minister for Energy for the State of Western Australia, acting in accordance with regulation 6(2) of the Electricity Industry (Wholesale Electricity Market) Regulations 2004 hereby make these amending rules to implement the following amendments to Appendix 8 of the Wholesale Electricity Market Rules—

(1) rule 1.1 is amended by inserting “ or clause A2.24” at the end of the

definition of “auditor”;

(2) rule 5.16 is amended as follows—

(a) by deleting the full stop at the end of paragraph (e) and inserting a semicolon followed by the word “and” instead; and

(b) after paragraph (e) by inserting—

“

(f) curtailments of trading electricity enforced under rule 3.21.

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(3)	rule 5.17 is deleted and the following rule is inserted instead—
“
5.17 To avoid doubt, the residual imbalance tariffs contained in the residual imbalance tariff list published by the market service provider under rule 4.3 will not be audited under rule 5.16.

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(4) rule 5.18 is amended by deleting “rule 5.17” and inserting instead “rule

5.16”;

(5) after clause A2.23 in Appendix 2 to Appendix 8 the following clause is

inserted—

“

A2.24 Without limiting the market service provider’s obligations under clause A2.1, the Minister may request the market service provider to appoint an auditor, in accordance with clause A2.3, to undertake an interim negative assurance audit of—

(a)	the market service provider’s compliance since the last negative assurance audit with those provisions listed in rule 5.16 as specified by the TUAS consultation group; and
(b)	any other matters recommended to the Minister by the TUAS consultation group for the auditor’s attention.

Subject to this clause, an interim negative assurance audit will be conducted in the same manner as a negative assurance audit conducted under clause A2.1.

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(6) Appendix 2 to Appendix 8 is amended by deleting “rule 5.17” in the explanatory note before the heading “Audit of the market service provider” and inserting instead “rule 5.16”; and

(7) clause A2.1 in Appendix 2 to Appendix 8 is amended by deleting “rule 5.17 “

and inserting instead “rule 5.16”.

The amendments specified in this notice are to come into force on the day after the date that this notice is published in the Government Gazette.

ALAN CARPENTER MLA, Minister for Energy.

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