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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Monitoring and enforcement - Code enforcement

52: Limitation periods for breaches of Code

You could also call this:

"Time limits for dealing with electricity industry rule breaks"

The Authority has limits on when it can act on breaches of the Code. You need to know two important time limits. First, if the Authority or someone else should have found out about a breach more than 3 years ago, the Authority can't do anything about it now. Second, if the breach happened more than 10 years ago, the Authority also can't act on it. But here's an important thing to remember: once the Authority starts looking into a breach, these time limits don't matter anymore. The Authority can keep investigating and taking action, even if the breach is older than these time limits.

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Monitoring and enforcement: Code enforcement

52Limitation periods for breaches of Code

  1. The Authority may not exercise its powers in relation to a breach or possible breach of the Code if the breach—

  2. was discovered, or ought reasonably to have been discovered, more than 3 years before the exercise of the power; or
    1. occurred more than 10 years before the exercise of the power.

      1. However, once the Authority has exercised a power in relation to the breach or possible breach, the limitations in subsection (1) do not apply.

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