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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Registration

31: Offences relating to registration

You could also call this:

“You can get in trouble if you don't sign up or keep your information up to date as an electricity industry member”

If you are an industry participant, you must register as one. If you don’t register and don’t have a good reason for not doing so, you are breaking the law. You could be fined up to $20,000 if you are found guilty.

If you are already registered as an industry participant, you need to make sure the information about you on the register is correct and complete. If you know or should know that your information is wrong or not complete, you must update it as required by section 29(2). If you don’t do this, you are breaking the law and could be fined up to $20,000 if you are found guilty.

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Part 2 Electricity industry governance
Registration

31Offences relating to registration

  1. An industry participant that fails, without reasonable excuse, to register as an industry participant commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000.

  2. A registered industry participant commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000, if it knows or ought to know that the information recorded for it on the register is wrong or incomplete and it fails to supply updated information as required by section 29(2).

Notes
  • Section 31(1): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
  • Section 31(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).