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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Registration

27: Register of industry participants

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“The Authority keeps a list of electricity industry people and companies”

The Authority must keep and share a list of people and companies involved in the electricity industry. This list is called a register.

The register needs to include:

  • The name, how to contact, and what kind of business each participant does, unless they don’t have to be on the list.
  • The day when each participant was first added to the list.
  • Any changes made to a participant’s information, including when and what changed.
  • The names of people who were on the list but aren’t anymore, after this rule started.

When we talk about contact details, we mean where the participant is located, their mailing address, phone number, fax number, and email address.

Business details mean what kind of work the participant does in the electricity industry. For example, they might make electricity, move it around the country, deliver it to homes and businesses, sell it, or do more than one of these things.

The Authority can choose whether to include participants who don’t have to be on the list, but they don’t have to.

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Part 2 Electricity industry governance
Registration

27Register of industry participants

  1. The Authority must maintain and publicise a register of industry participants.

  2. The register must record—

  3. the name, contact details, and business details of every current industry participant, other than a participant that is exempt from the obligation to register:
    1. the date on which a participant's name was first entered in the register:
      1. the date and nature of every subsequent change to the details recorded for each participant:
        1. the name of every person who, after this section comes into force, has been recorded as a current industry participant but subsequently ceases to be.

          1. For the purposes of the register,—

          2. an industry participant's contact details are its physical address, postal address, telephone number, fax number, and email address; and
            1. an industry participant's business details are details about the nature of its business (for example, whether it is engaged in generation, transmission, distribution, retailing, or a combination of any of these).

              1. The register may, but need not, contain the names of all or any industry participants that are exempt from the obligation to be registered.

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              Notes
              • Section 27(3)(b): amended, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Industry Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 46).