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Electricity Act 1992

General - Electricity operators

4A: Declaration of electricity generators as electricity operators

You could also call this:

“The Minister can name electricity makers as special operators”

The Minister can say that someone who makes electricity is an electricity operator. This means the person can do certain things under the law. The Minister will do this by putting a notice in a special book called the Gazette. The Minister will only do this if it’s needed for the person to start or keep making electricity. Also, the person can only use this special status for the equipment they need to send the electricity they make to where it’s used.

If the person stops doing these electricity activities, the Minister must say they are no longer an electricity operator. The Minister will do this by putting another notice in the Gazette. This notice will say when the person stops being an electricity operator.

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Part 2 General
Electricity operators

4ADeclaration of electricity generators as electricity operators

  1. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare an electricity generator to be an electricity operator for the purposes of this Act, or any provision or provisions of this Act, if the Minister is satisfied—

  2. that the declaration is necessary to enable the person to commence or carry on an activity as an electricity generator; and
    1. that the business interests in respect of which the declaration is made are confined to any or all of the works necessary to convey the electricity generated to an electricity installation owned by an electricity generator, electricity distributor, or a consumer.

      1. The Minister must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, by notice in the Gazette, declare that a person ceases to be an electricity operator on a date stated in the notice if the Minister is satisfied that the person is no longer carrying out any of the activities referred to in subsection (1).

      2. Repealed
      Notes
      • Section 4A: substituted, on , by section 8 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 40).
      • Section 4A heading: substituted, on , by section 30(2) of the Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 71).
      • Section 4A(1): substituted, on , by section 30(3) of the Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 71).
      • Section 4A(2): substituted, on , by section 30(4) of the Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 71).
      • Section 4A(3): repealed, on , by section 30(4) of the Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 71).