Electricity Industry Act 2004

Electricity Industry (Alternative Electricity Services) Regulations 2026

 

 

Electricity Industry (Alternative Electricity Services) Regulations 2026

Contents

Part 1 — Preliminary

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

Part 3 — Public consultation

20.Applications (Act s. 59L(1))2

21.AES code of practice (Act s. 59Z(1) and 59ZC)2

Part 4 — Miscellaneous

22.Application fees (Act s. 59G, 59H, 59I, 59J(3) and 59R(2))4

23.Annual fees (Act s. 59Q(1) and 59W)4

24.Use and disclosure of confidential information (Act s. 59ZH(3))5

Notes

Compilation table7

Uncommenced provisions table7

Defined terms

 

Electricity Industry Act 2004

Electricity Industry (Alternative Electricity Services) Regulations 2026

Part 1 — Preliminary

1.Citation

These regulations are the Electricity Industry (Alternative Electricity Services) Regulations 2026.

2.Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)Part 1 (other than regulation 3) — on the day on which these regulations are published on the WA legislation website (publication day);

(b)Parts 3 and 4 — on the day after publication day;

(c)regulations 10, 14 and 18 — on 1 July 2027;

(d)the rest of the regulations — on 1 February 2027.

[3.Has not come into operation.]

[Part 2 has not come into operation.]

Part 3 — Public consultation

20.Applications (Act s. 59L(1))

(1)In this regulation —

application means an application for any of the following —

(a)the grant of a registration;

(b)the renewal of a registration;

(c)an amendment to a registration;

(d)approval to transfer a registration;

(e)approval to surrender a registration.

(2)The Authority must publish notice of an application on the Authority’s website.

(3)The notice must include the following —

(a)a statement that any person may, within the period specified by the Authority, make a submission to the Authority on the application;

(b)information on how to make a submission.

(4)The notice may relate to more than 1 application.

(5)The Authority —

(a)must, as far as is reasonably practicable, give a copy of the notice to each person the Authority considers has a material interest in the application; and

(b)must, before determining the application, consider submissions made in accordance with the notice; and

(c)may consider other submissions received.

21.AES code of practice (Act s. 59Z(1) and 59ZC)

(1)In this regulation —

Department means the department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration of the Act.

(2)Notice of the following must be published on the Department’s website —

(a)a proposal to issue, amend or repeal and replace the AES code of practice;

(b)the carrying out of a review of the AES code of practice.

(3)The notice must include the following —

(a)a statement that any person may, within the period specified by the Department, make a submission to the Department;

(b)information on how to make a submission.

(4)The Department must, as far as is reasonably practicable, give a copy of the notice to each person the Department considers has an interest in the proposed amendment or review.

(5)The Minister must consider submissions made in accordance with the notice.

Part 4 — Miscellaneous

22.Application fees (Act s. 59G, 59H, 59I, 59J(3) and 59R(2))

The application fee is nil.

23.Annual fees (Act s. 59Q(1) and 59W)

(1)In this regulation —

application fee means a fee payable under the Act sections 59G(b), 59H(b), 59I(b), 59J(3)(b) or 59R(2)(b);

core function costs, for a financial year, means the costs incurred by the Authority in the financial year in connection with the performance of the Authority’s registration functions;

registration function means functions of the Authority under Part 3A of the Act.

(2)The annual fee for a registration holder to provide 1 alternative electricity service in a financial year is determined in accordance with the following formula —

where —

Cis the amount of the core function costs for the financial year;

Ris the total number of alternative electricity services for which registrations are held on 30 June in the financial year.

(3)If a registration holder does not hold a registration to provide an alternative electricity service for the whole of the financial year, the annual fee for that service is reduced by the proportion of the year during which the registration holder did not hold the registration to provide the service.

(4)The Authority must carry out reviews of —

(a)the Authority’s core function costs; and

(b)the extent to which application fees paid to the Authority are sufficient to meet those costs; and

(c)the formula set out in subregulation (2) for the calculation of the annual fee.

(5)The Authority must —

(a)carry out the first review, and give the Minister a written report based on it, before 2 February 2030; and

(b)carry out subsequent reviews, and give the Minister written reports based on them, as soon as practicable after each 3rd anniversary of the date of the first report.

24.Use and disclosure of confidential information (Act s. 59ZH(3))

(1)In this regulation —

annual report means the annual report prepared under section 59ZE of the Act;

confidential information means information or a document identified as confidential or commercially sensitive by —

(a)the Authority under subregulation (4)(a); or

(b)the person who gives the information or document to the Authority.

(2)The Authority must not disclose confidential information to a person unless the Authority is of the opinion that —

(a)the disclosure of the information would not cause detriment to any person; or

(b)the public benefit in disclosing the information outweighs the detriment caused to a person by the disclosure of the information.

(3)Subregulation (2) does not prevent the Authority —

(a)from disclosing information or the contents of a document to a staff member, the Coordinator or the Minister; or

(b)from using information or a document for the purposes of civil or criminal proceedings.

(4)The Authority —

(a)must identify information that the Authority considers is confidential information in the following —

(i)the Authority’s annual report;

(ii)information disclosed to the Coordinator;

and

(b)must not publish confidential information.

 

Notes

This is a compilation of the Electricity Industry (Alternative Electricity Services) Regulations 2026. For provisions that have come into operation see the compilation table. For provisions that have not yet come into operation see the uncommenced provisions table.

Compilation table

Citation

Published

Commencement

Electricity Industry (Alternative Electricity Services) Regulations 2026 (other than r. 3 and Pt. 2)

SL 2026/163 5 Aug 2026

Pt. 1 (other than r. 3): 5 Aug 2026 (see r. 2(a));
Pt. 3 and 4: 6 Aug 2026 (see r. 2(b))

Uncommenced provisions table

To view the text of the uncommenced provisions see Subsidiary legislation as made on the WA legislation website.

Citation

Published

Commencement

Electricity Industry (Alternative Electricity Services) Regulations 2026 r. 3 and Pt. 2

SL 2026/163 5 Aug 2026

r. 3 and Pt. 2 (other than r. 10, 14 and 18): 1 Feb 2027 (see r. 2(d));
r. 10, 14 and 18: 1 Jul 2027 (see r. 2(c))

 

 

Defined terms

 

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined termProvision(s)

annual report24(1)

application20(1)

application fee23(1)

confidential information24(1)

core function costs23(1)

Department21(1)

publication day2

registration function23(1)

 

 

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