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ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 -
DICTIONARY
(Section 4)
"AEMO" has the same meaning as it has in Part 8A.
"approved electricity industry ombudsman scheme" means a scheme approved under
section 96B.
"authorised electrician" has the same meaning as it has in the
Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act 2004 .
"authorised officer" means an authorised officer appointed under section 94.
"complying generator" -see section 15A (2).
"corrosion protection system" means any appliances, wires, fittings or other
apparatus designed, intended or used for the protection, by means of
electrical currents, of metallic structures in contact with land, including
water, from external corrosion and includes cathodic protection systems,
drainage bonds, boosted drainage bonds and cross bonds.
"council" means the council of a local government area.
"customer" means a wholesale customer or a retail customer.
"customer connection contract" means a standard form customer connection
contract or a negotiated customer connection contract.
"customer connection services" means any of the following services:
(a) the
connection of any premises to a distribution network service provider’s
distribution system,
(b) an increase in the maximum capacity of any
premises’ existing connection to a distribution network service provider’s
distribution system,
(c) the maintenance of the capability for electricity to
be supplied to or received from any premises from a distribution network
service provider’s distribution system,
and includes services of a kind
prescribed by the regulations as being within this definition, but does not
include services of a kind prescribed by the regulations as not being within
this definition.
"customer consultative group" means a customer consultative group referred to
in section 89.
"customer supply contract" means a standard form customer supply contract or a
negotiated customer supply contract.
"Department" means the Department of Industry and Investment.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department.
"distribution district" of a distribution network service provider specified
in Schedule 3 means the distribution district described in that Schedule in
relation to the service provider.
"distribution network service provider" means a person who owns or controls a
distribution system.
"distribution network service provider’s licence" means a licence referred
to in section 14.
"distribution system" means the electricity power lines and associated
equipment and electricity structures that are used to convey and control the
conveyance of electricity: (a) to the premises of wholesale and retail
customers, up to the point of supply in relation to the premises (which may or
may not be situated on the building or land comprising the premises), or
(a1)
from the premises of small retail customers that have a complying generator
installed and connected from the point of supply to the premises, or
(b) to,
from and along the rail network electricity system,
but does not include a
transmission system or any lines, equipment and structures prescribed by the
regulations.
"electrical installation" means the electrical wiring and associated equipment
that are used to convey and control the conveyance of electricity within
premises to which electricity is supplied from a distribution system, but does
not include anything connected to and extending or situated beyond an
electrical outlet socket.
"electrical wiring work" has the same meaning as it has in the
Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act 2004 .
"electricity delivery equipment" means any machinery, apparatus, appliances,
material or other equipment used or intended to be used by any network
operator or retail supplier for or in connection with the generation,
transmission or distribution of electricity.
"electricity generator" means a person who owns or controls a generating
system.
"electricity network services" means transmission services, and distribution
services, within the meaning of the National Electricity Code that are
regulated under Chapters 6 and 9 of that Code.
"electricity structure" means any structure (other than a building) that is
used to carry overhead lines or associated equipment, and includes any
structure that is used for the purposes of street lighting.
"Electricity Tariff Equalisation Fund" means the Fund constituted under
section 43EN.
"Electricity Tariff Equalisation Ministerial Corporation" means the
Corporation of that name constituted under section 43EM.
"electricity works" means any electricity power lines or associated equipment
or electricity structures that form part of a transmission or distribution
system.
"exercise" a function includes perform a duty.
"financial year" means a period of 12 months commencing on 1 July.
"function" includes a power, authority or duty.
"generating system" means the electrical equipment and associated electricity
structures that are used to generate electricity for supply to a transmission
or distribution system but, subject to the regulations, does not include a
complying generator.
"health care professional" means a person registered under the Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law.
"inspector" means any person appointed under section 63M by the
Director-General as an inspector for the purposes of the provision in which
the expression is used.
"interstate wholesale market agreement" means any arrangement, agreement or
understanding entered into or agreed between the Market and System Operator
and an interstate wholesale market operator for the operation of a wholesale
market for electricity within New South Wales and some other State or
Territory.
"interstate wholesale market operator" means an interstate body that operates
a wholesale market for electricity in some other State or Territory.
"licence" means a distribution network service provider’s licence or a
retail supplier’s licence.
"National Electricity Code" means the National Electricity Code , as in force
from time to time, referred to in the National Electricity (NSW) Law .
"National Electricity (NSW) Law" means the provisions applying because of
section 6 of the National Electricity (New South Wales) Act 1997 , and
includes the National Electricity Code , as in force from time to time,
referred to in that Law.
"negotiated customer connection contract" means a contract entered into under
Division 3 of Part 3.
"negotiated customer supply contract" means a contract entered into under
Division 2 of Part 4.
"network operator" means a transmission operator or distribution network
service provider.
"point of supply", in relation to the premises of a wholesale or retail
customer or a class of wholesale or retail customers, means the point of
supply to an electrical installation supplying electricity to the premises, as
determined in accordance with the regulations.
"premises" includes any building or part of a building, any structure or part
of a structure, any land (whether built on or not) and any river, lake or
other waters.
"public authority" means a public or local authority constituted by or under
an Act or a statutory body representing the Crown, and includes a Minister and
a statutory State owned corporation and its subsidiaries.
"public reserve" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act
1993 .
"public road" has the same meaning as it has in the Roads Act 1993 .
"rail network electricity system" means the rail network electricity system
operated by Rail Corporation New South Wales or Rail Infrastructure
Corporation.
"regulated retail charge" means a security deposit, late payment fee or fee
for a dishonoured bank cheque of an amount specified in a determination in
force under Division 5 of Part 4.
"regulated retail tariff" means a tariff for or in relation to the supply of
electricity required to be charged to a small retail customer under a standard
form customer supply contract, being a tariff specified in a determination in
force under Division 5 of Part 4.
"retail customer" means a person to whose premises electricity is supplied
under a customer supply contract.
"retail supplier" means a person who holds a retail supplier’s licence.
"retail supplier’s licence" means a licence referred to in section 33.
"roads authority" has the same meaning as it has in the Roads Act 1993 .
"serious electricity works accident" means an accident: (a) in which
electricity works are involved, and
(b) as a consequence of which a person
dies or suffers permanent disability, is hospitalised, receives treatment from
a health care professional or is unable to attend work for any period of time.
"small retail customer" -see section 92.
"standard form customer connection contract" means a contract entered into
under Division 2 of Part 3.
"standard form customer supply contract" means a contract entered into under
Division 3 of Part 4.
"standard retail supplier" means a retail supplier to whose retail
supplier’s licence is attached a standard retail supplier’s endorsement as
referred to in section 33A.
"stray current source" means any appliance, equipment, fitting or other
apparatus: (a) that operates on direct electrical current or is designed or
used to generate or transmit direct electrical current, and
(b) that is
attached, whether directly or indirectly, to a metallic structure in contact
with land, including water.
"supply", in relation to electricity, means the supply of electricity by means
of a transmission or distribution system.
"supply district" of a standard retail supplier means the supply district
described in a condition of the standard retail supplier’s licence.
"traffic route" has the same meaning as it has in section 45E of the
Transport Administration Act 1988 .
"transmission operator" means a person who owns or controls a transmission
system.
"transmission system" means any electricity power lines and associated
equipment and electricity structures that are a transmission system by virtue
of an order in force under section 93.
"Tribunal" means the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal established
under the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal Act 1992 .
"unincorporated area" means such part of the land within the Western Division
of the State as is not within a local government area.
"wholesale customer" means a person to whose premises electricity is supplied
under a wholesale supply arrangement.
"wholesale market access regime" means a regime established under the National
Electricity (NSW) Law for the granting of access to a transmission system or
distribution system.
"wholesale supply arrangement" means an arrangement (other than a customer
supply contract) for the supply of electricity, and includes any such
arrangement entered into (or taken to have been entered into) under the
National Electricity (NSW) Law .
"wholesale trader" means a person: (a) who enters into wholesale supply
arrangements, or
(b) who buys, sells or otherwise deals in rights to the
supply of electricity arising under wholesale supply arrangements.
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