Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2012

  • revoked
  • Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2012: revoked, on 1 July 2013, by regulation 14 of the Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2013 (SR 2013/207).

Reprint
as at 1 July 2013

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Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2012

(SR 2012/152)

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 25th day of June 2012

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

  • Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2012: revoked, on 1 July 2013, by regulation 14 of the Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2013 (SR 2013/207).

Note

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 Business, Innovation, and Employment.

Pursuant to section 43ZZE of the Gas Act 1992, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister of Energy and Resources (made in accordance with section 43ZZD of that Act), makes the following regulations.

Regulations

1 Title

  • These regulations are the Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2012.

2 Commencement

  • These regulations come into force on 1 July 2012.

3 Application

  • (1) These regulations apply to the 2012/13 financial year.

    (2) These regulations provide for a levy to meet the estimated costs referred to in section 43ZZC of the Act.

4 Interpretation

  • (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

    2012/13 financial year means the year beginning on 1 July 2012 and ending with 30 June 2013

    Act means the Gas Act 1992

    GIC means Gas Industry Company Limited, being the body that is approved as the industry body for the purposes of Part 4A of the Act by the Gas (Approval of Industry Body) Order 2004

    GST means goods and services tax within the meaning of the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985.

    (2) Any term not defined in subclause (1) but defined in section 2(1) or 43D of the Act has the meaning set out in those sections.

Wholesale gas levy

5 Liability to pay wholesale gas levy

  • (1) Every person who is an industry participant on the first day of any month during the 2012/13 financial year must pay to GIC a wholesale gas levy for that month calculated in accordance with subclause (2).

    (2) The levy rate is 1.74 cents per gigajoule of gas purchased during the previous month by the industry participant from gas producers.

    (3) However, an industry participant is not liable to pay a wholesale gas levy on any gas purchased by it from a gas producer who has purchased that gas from another gas producer.

6 When wholesale gas levy is due

  • The wholesale gas levy for a month is due and payable on the 20th day of that month.

7 Information to be supplied with wholesale gas levy payment

  • (1) In order to ensure that the amount of levy paid is correct, every industry participant who is liable to pay a wholesale gas levy for a month must supply to GIC a written return stating the total number of gigajoules of gas that the industry participant purchased during the previous month from—

    • (a) all gas producers; and

    • (b) those gas producers, as described in regulation 5(3), who have purchased the gas from other gas producers.

    (2) The industry participant must supply the return no later than the due date for payment of the levy for that month or on any later date agreed by GIC.

Retail gas levy

8 Liability to pay retail gas levy

  • (1) Every gas retailer who is an industry participant on the last day of any month in the period June 2012 to May 2013 (inclusive) (date A), must pay to GIC a retail gas levy for the month that begins on the first day of the following month, calculated in accordance with subclause (2).

    (2) The levy rate is 51.92 cents per month for each ICP for which the registry, as at date A, shows—

    • (a) the gas retailer is the responsible retailer; and

    • (b) the status ACTIVE-CONTRACTED.

    (3) In this regulation, ICP and registry have the same meanings as in rule 5.2 of the Gas (Switching Arrangements) Rules 2008 (made under section 43Q of the Act).

9 When retail gas levy is due

  • The retail gas levy for a month is due and payable on the 20th day of that month.

General provisions

10 Confirmation of whether industry participant liable to pay levy

  • (1) GIC may, by notice in writing, require any industry participant to state whether or not the industry participant is liable to pay a levy prescribed by these regulations.

    (2) The statement by the industry participant must be in writing and be certified as required by regulation 11.

11 Obligation to certify that returns and statements correct

  • An industry participant must ensure that any returns or statements supplied by it under these regulations are certified as correct by a director of the industry participant or by any other person who is authorised by the industry participant to certify the correctness of the returns or statements.

12 Late payment

  • (1) An industry participant who fails to pay any amount of any levy under these regulations on or before the date on which it falls due is liable to pay an additional levy of 10% of the total amount remaining unpaid on the close of that date.

    (2) An additional levy under subclause (1) becomes due and payable on the tenth working day after the date on which GIC notifies the industry participant that the additional levy is payable.

13 Confidentiality

  • GIC must ensure that any returns, statements, or other information supplied under these regulations are used only for the purposes of collecting the levies prescribed by these regulations, except to the extent that—

    • (a) the person who supplied the returns, statements, or information consents otherwise; or

    • (b) GIC is required by or under law to disclose the returns, statements, or information.

14 Levies exclusive of GST

  • (1) The levies are exclusive of any GST.

    (2) If any GST is payable on the amount of any levy, the industry participant liable to pay the levy must pay the amount of GST to GIC together with its payment of the levy amount.

15 Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2011 revoked

Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 1 July 2012, impose levies on gas industry participants. The levies fund the costs of the Gas Industry Company Limited in performing functions and duties and exercising powers, including the cost of collecting the levies. The Gas Industry Company Limited is the approved industry body under the Gas Act 1992.

The 2012/13 levies are—

  • a wholesale gas levy of 1.74 cents for every gigajoule of gas purchased from gas producers, calculated monthly on the basis of the buyer's purchases in the previous month and payable monthly. The levy is not payable on gas supplied from gas producers who have purchased the gas from other gas producers. This year's levy rate is an increase from the rate of 1.66 cents per gigajoule that applied in the 2011/12 financial year:

  • a retail gas levy of 51.92 cents per month (which is the annual levy rate of $6.23 divided by 12) for each installation control point to which the retailer has a contract to supply gas (as recorded on the registry under the Gas (Switching Arrangements) Rules 2008) as at the last day of the previous month. This year's levy rate is an increase from the rate of 48 cents per month that applied in the 2011/12 financial year.

The levies are exclusive of goods and services tax.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 28 June 2012.

Contents

  • 1General

  • 2Status of reprints

  • 3How reprints are prepared

  • 4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • 5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2012. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the regulations as at 1 July 2013, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

    Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

  • Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

    This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

  • A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

    A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

    In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

    • •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

    • •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

    • •layout of provisions, including:

      • •indentation

      • •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

    • •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

    • •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

    • •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

    • •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

    • •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •case and appearance of letters and words, including:

      • •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

      • •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

    • •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

    • •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

  • Gas (Levy of Industry Participants) Regulations 2013 (SR 2013/207): regulation 14