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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Electricity Industry Participation Code - Making and amending Code

41: Authority to publish consultation charter

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“The Authority must make and share rules about asking for people's opinions on changes”

The Authority must create and share a consultation charter. This charter will include guidelines about how to change the Code and how to ask people for their opinions on suggested changes. These guidelines must follow the rules set out in the Act.

You should know that even if there wasn’t a consultation charter when a change was made to the Code, or if the Authority didn’t follow the charter properly, the change to the Code is still valid. This means the change still counts and is still part of the rules.

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Electricity Industry Participation Code: Making and amending Code

41Authority to publish consultation charter

  1. The Authority must develop, issue, and make publicly available a consultation charter that includes guidelines, not inconsistent with this Act, relating to the processes for amending the Code and consulting on proposed amendments.

  2. However, no amendment to the Code is invalid merely because—

  3. there was no consultation charter at the time the amendment was consulted on or made; or
    1. the Authority failed to comply with the charter.