New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SAFETY AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2008 - NOTES

See also:

Electricity Supply Amendment (GGAS) Bill 2009

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Electricity Supply Act 1995.
Minister for Energy

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to remake, with some changes, the provisions of the Electricity Supply (Safety and Network Management) Regulation 2002 ( "the former Regulation") which is repealed on 1 September 2008 by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.
This Regulation now provides that the 4 plans, that may previously have been required from a network operator under the former Regulation, are now to be chapters of a single network management plan. Each chapter of that plan is now to be audited at the times required by the Director-General of the Department of Water and Energy ( "the Director-General"). This Regulation also sets out the circumstances in which a distribution network service provider may disconnect premises from, or refuse to connect premises to, its distribution system.
This Regulation also makes provision with respect to the following:

(a) the matters that must be included in a network operator’s network management plan,

(b) the auditing of that plan by an independent auditor,

(c) the compliance of a network operator with its plan, including making the plan publicly available and reporting to the Director-General,

(d) the power of the Director-General to exempt a network operator from the requirements of this Regulation,

(e) savings, transitional and formal matters.

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Table of amending instruments