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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Who does what - Electricity Authority

12: Authority established

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“The government creates a special group to manage electricity”

The government has created a new organisation called the Electricity Authority. This Authority is a special type of government organisation known as a Crown entity. It’s independent, which means it can make its own decisions without being told what to do by other parts of the government.

The Electricity Authority has to follow the rules set out in a law called the Crown Entities Act 2004. However, if there are any special rules in the Electricity Industry Act that are different from the Crown Entities Act, then the Electricity Authority follows those special rules instead.

You can find more information about Crown entities in section 7(1) and Part 3 of Schedule 1 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

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Part 2 Electricity industry governance
Who does what: Electricity Authority

12Authority established

  1. The Electricity Authority is established.

  2. The Authority is a Crown entity for the purposes of section 7(1) of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (and, by virtue of being named in Part 3 of Schedule 1 of that Act, is an independent Crown entity).

  3. The Crown Entities Act 2004 applies to the Authority except to the extent that this Act expressly provides otherwise.

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