Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Bill

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Part 2
Amendments to other Acts and transitional provision

25 Consequential amendments to Commerce Act 1986
  • (1) This section and section 26 amend the Commerce Act 1986.

    (2) The definitions of electricity business, electricity lines business, and involved in section 57D(1) are repealed.

    (3) Section 57D is amended by adding the following subsections:

    • (3) In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

      electricity business means an electricity lines business or an electricity supply business or an unseparated electricity business

      electricity lines business has the same meaning as in section 57DAA

      electricity supply business has the same meaning as in section 57DAAB.

    • (4) In relation to sections 57DAA and 57DAAB,—

      • (a) limitations, exclusions, or exemptions under those sections may be applied cumulatively; and

      • (b) references to an activity being carried out only or solely for a particular purpose or in a particular way must not be read as excluding reliance on any other limitation, exclusion, or exemption in either of those sections.