Reprint as at 1 November 2010
(SR 2008/252)
Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, Administrator of the Government
At Wellington this 11th day of August 2008
Present:
Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council
Electricity Governance (Security of Supply) Regulations 2008: revoked, on 1 November 2010, by section 166 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 (2010 No 116).
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Economic Development.
Pursuant to subpart 2 of Part 14 of the Electricity Act 1992, Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister of Energy, makes the following regulations.
Part 1
Planning for shortage of supply situations
Subpart 1—Commission's security of supply outage plan
5 Commission must prepare and publish security of supply outage plan
6 Contents of security of supply outage plan
7 Process for preparing security of supply outage plan
8 Amendments and substitutions of security of supply outage plans
Subpart 2—Participant outage plans
8A Commission must require specified participants to develop participant outage plans
8B Specified participants must develop participant outage plans
8C Contents of participant outage plans
8D Approval of participant outage plans
8E Revision of participant outage plans
8F Approval of revised participant outage plans
8G Publishing of participant outage plans
8H Specified participants must keep participant outage plans up to date
Part 2
Outages in shortage of supply situation
10 Power to direct outages in security of supply situation
11 Specified participants must comply with direction
12 Offence to fail to comply with Commission direction [Revoked]
13 Revocation of supply shortage declaration
15 Offence to fail to provide information