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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Who does what - Small Electricity Consumers Agency

22A: Minister may establish Small Electricity Consumers Agency

You could also call this:

“Minister can create a group to help small electricity users”

The Minister can create a Small Electricity Consumers Agency by approving one or more people to do the agency’s job. These people can do all or part of the job.

When the law talks about ‘person’, it can mean a part of the government too, like a public service agency.

Before approving someone to do the agency’s job, the Minister needs to make sure they can do it well.

The agency can decide how it works, but it has to follow any instructions the Minister gives.

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Part 2 Electricity industry governance
Who does what: Small Electricity Consumers Agency

22AMinister may establish Small Electricity Consumers Agency

  1. The Minister may establish a Small Electricity Consumers Agency by approving 1 or more persons to perform the function of the agency.

  2. The Minister may approve 1 or more persons to perform the function of the agency, and each person approved may perform all or any part of that function.

  3. In subsection (2), person includes any instrument of the Crown (for example, a public service agency, as that term is defined in section 5 of the Public Service Act 2020).

  4. In approving a person or persons under subsection (2), the Minister must be satisfied that the person has (or the persons collectively have) the ability to perform the function of the agency.

  5. The agency may determine its own procedure, subject to any directions given to it by the Minister.

Notes
  • Section 22A: inserted, on , by section 12 of the Electricity Industry Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 46).