Electricity Distribution Access (Regional Systems) Order 1998 00-b0-03 Xml

Western Australia

Electricity Corporation Act 1994

Electricity Distribution Access (Regional Systems) Order 1998

Made by the Minister under section 93(1)(b) of the Act.

1.Citation

This order may be cited as the Electricity Distribution Access (Regional Systems) Order 1998.

2.Commencement

This order comes into operation on 1 January 1999.

3.Definitions

In this order —

“regional system” means any part of the electricity distribution system identified as a regional power isolated system on the depiction prepared and maintained under regulation 5 of the Electricity Distribution Regulations 1997;

“distribution exit point” has the same meaning as it has in the Electricity Distribution Regulations 1997;

“regional system access” means access to spare capacity and new capacity of a regional system.

Clause 3 amended in Gazette 29 September 2000 p.5567.]

4.Regional system access

Under clause 2(1) of Schedule 6 to the Act, the corporation is to make available regional system access to an existing or prospective user for the transport of electricity if —

(a)the electricity is to be transported to a single distribution exit point; and

(b)the amount of electricity to be transported is to be at least 300 megawatt hours in the period of 12 months beginning on the day on and from which the existing or prospective user wants access to be made available.

[Clause 4 inserted in Gazette 29 September 2000 p.5568.]

Notes

1.This is a compilation of the Electricity Distribution Access (Regional Systems) Order 1998 and includes the amendments referred to in the following Table.

Compilation table

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Electricity Distribution Access (Regional Systems) Order 1998	3 Nov 1998 p. 6076	1 Jan 1999 (see order 2)
Electricity Distribution Access (Regional Systems) Amendment Order 2000	29 Sep 2000 p. 5567-8	1 Oct 2000 (see clause 2)