{"id":"daylight-saving-regulations-2006","name":"Daylight Saving Regulations 2006","slug":"daylight-saving-regulations-2006","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":174516,"registerId":"wa-daylight-saving-regulations-2006-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Daylight Saving Regulations 2006","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nDaylight Saving Act 2006\n\nDaylight Saving Regulations 2006\n\nWestern Australia\n\nDaylight Saving Regulations 2006\n\nContents\n\n1. Citation 1\n\n2. Terms used in these regulations 1\n\n3. Operation of regulations 3\n\n4. Construction of references to time — prescribed energy agreements 4\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 5\n\nDefined terms\n\n  \n\nWestern Australia\n\nDaylight Saving Act 2006\n\nDaylight Saving Regulations 2006\n\n##### 1. Citation\n\nThese regulations are the *Daylight Saving Regulations 2006*.\n\n##### 2. Terms used in these regulations\n\nIn these regulations —\n\n  Alinta entity means —\n\n(a) AlintaAGL Pty Ltd ABN 38 102 848 055; or\n\n(b) Alinta Energy Pty Ltd ABN 16 108 664 151; or\n\n(c) Alinta Network Holdings Pty Ltd ABN 63 104 788 123; or\n\n(d) Alinta Asset Management Pty Ltd ABN 52 104 352 650; or\n\n(e) Alinta Asset Management (2) Pty Ltd ABN 82 073 613 733; or\n\n(f) Alinta Electricity Trading Pty Ltd ABN 36 102 848 046; or\n\n(g) any subsidiary, for the purposes of the *Corporations Act 2001* of the Commonwealth, of a body referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f);\n\n  daylight saving period means any period during which summer time is declared by the Act to be in advance of standard time;\n\n  electricity retailer means —\n\n(a) the Electricity Generation and Retail Corporation established by the *Electricity Corporations Act 2005* section 4(1)(a); or\n\n(b) the Regional Power Corporation established by the *Electricity Corporations Act 2005* section 4(1)(d); or\n\n(c) Landfill Gas & Power Pty Ltd ACN 89 053 919 430; or\n\n(d) Perth Energy Pty Ltd ACN 087 386 445; or\n\n(e) WA Power Exchange Pty Ltd ACN 094 981 478;\n\n  electricity service means a service ancillary to, or otherwise related to, the supply of electricity including, without limitation —\n\n(a) a metering service; and\n\n(b) an information technology or telecommunication service; and\n\n(c) a supervisory control and data acquisition service;\n\n  prescribed energy agreement means a contract or agreement, whether made orally or in writing, or a deed or other instrument of any kind —\n\n(a) for or relating to —\n\n(i) the supply of electricity; or\n\n(ii) the provision of an electricity service,\n\nby an electricity retailer and under which the amount of any fee or charge payable in respect of the supply or service is determined by reference to the time at which, or the period of time during which, the electricity is supplied or the service is provided, as the case requires; or\n\n(b) for or relating to —\n\n(i) the supply of electricity; or\n\n(ii) the provision of an electricity service,\n\nby or to the Electricity Networks Corporation established by the *Electricity Corporations Act 2005* section 4(1)(b); or\n\n(c) for or relating to —\n\n(i) the sale, supply, transportation, storage or disposal of gas, electricity or any other form of energy; or\n\n(ii) access to, or the operation or maintenance of, any pipeline, network or other infrastructure used for or in relation to the production, transportation or storage of gas, electricity or any other form of energy,\n\nand to which an Alinta entity is a party or in respect of which an Alinta entity exercises rights or performs duties on behalf of a party; or\n\n(d) for or relating to the provision of a gas transportation service or a related service utilising —\n\n(i) the privatised DBNGP system as defined in the *Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline Act 1997* section 3; or\n\n(ii) the Goldfields Gas Pipeline (being the Pipeline as defined in the agreement ratified under the *Goldfields Gas Pipeline Agreement Act 1994* section 3); or\n\n(e) to which 2 or more of paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) apply.\n\n[Regulation 2 amended: Gazette 27 Dec 2013 p. 6471.]\n\n##### 3. Operation of regulations\n\nThese regulations have effect —\n\n(a) throughout the State; and\n\n(b) during each daylight saving period.\n\n##### 4. Construction of references to time — prescribed energy agreements\n\nIt is declared that a reference in a prescribed energy agreement to any time or period of time is to be construed,  with respect to each daylight saving period, as a reference to —\n\n(a) standard time instead of summer time; or\n\n(b) that period of time as determined by reference to standard time instead of summer time,\n\nunless the agreement otherwise provides or the parties to the agreement otherwise agree.\n\nNotes\n\n1 This is a compilation of the *Daylight Saving Regulations 2006* and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Citation** | **Gazettal** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| *Daylight Saving Regulations 2006* | 1 Dec 2006 p. 5343-8 | 1 Dec 2006 |\n| *Electricity Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013* r. 3 | 27 Dec 2013 p. 6469-79 | 1 Jan 2014 (see r. 2(c) and *Gazette* 27 Dec 2013 p. 6465) |\n\n\nDefined terms\n\n*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*\n\n**Defined term Provision(s)**\n\nAlinta entity 2\n\ndaylight saving period 2\n\nelectricity retailer 2\n\nelectricity service 2\n\nprescribed energy agreement 2\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed — the legislative text was not available for analysis. The source URL returned a system error page rather than any legislative content."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative content was retrievable — only an error/redirect page was provided","Cannot assess actual regulatory complexity without the text","Minimal score assigned by default due to complete absence of analysable content"],"plain_english_summary":"## ⚠️ Content Unavailable\n\nThe requested legislation — the **Daylight Saving Regulations 2006 (WA)** — could not be retrieved. The page no longer exists at its original web address due to system upgrades on the Western Australian legislation website.\n\n**What we do know:**\n- This is a **Western Australian** regulation (not a federal law)\n- It relates to **daylight saving time** in Western Australia\n- It dates from **2006**, which aligns with WA's last daylight saving trial (2006–2009), which was ultimately **rejected by referendum in 2009**\n- WA remains the only mainland Australian state that does **not** observe daylight saving\n\n**To access the actual legislation**, visit the [Parliamentary Counsel's Office](https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au) and search directly for 'Daylight Saving Regulations 2006'."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations appear to maintain their original narrow technical purpose: preventing time-reference confusion in energy contracts during daylight saving periods. The 2013 amendment updated entity names and ABNs following corporate restructuring but did not expand the substantive scope beyond energy agreements."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple nested definitions: 'prescribed energy agreement' depends on 'electricity retailer' and 'electricity service', which themselves have multi-part definitions","Specific corporate identification: 6 Alinta entities listed by exact ABN, plus subsidiaries defined by reference to the Commonwealth Corporations Act","Cross-references to 4 other statutes: Electricity Corporations Act 2005, Corporations Act 2001, Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline Act 1997, and Goldfields Gas Pipeline Agreement Act 1994","Complex conditional logic in regulation 4: default rule (standard time) subject to two exceptions (agreement provides otherwise OR parties agree otherwise)","Geographic and temporal scoping in regulation 3: applies 'throughout the State' but only 'during each daylight saving period'"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:**\n\nThese regulations fix a technical problem with daylight saving time in Western Australia. When WA switches to daylight saving (summer time), these rules ensure that certain energy contracts keep running on **standard time** instead of switching to summer time.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n\n*   **Electricity retailers** – including state-owned corporations and specific private companies like Perth Energy\n*   **Alinta entities** – a group of specific energy companies involved in gas pipelines and electricity trading\n*   **Anyone with a \"prescribed energy agreement\"** – this covers contracts for:\n    *   Electricity supply where you're charged based on *when* you use power (time-of-use pricing)\n    *   Services like meter reading and data management\n    *   Gas transportation via major pipelines like the Dampier to Bunbury pipeline\n\n**Why it matters:**\n\nWithout these rules, when the clocks spring forward for daylight saving, your electricity bill might get confused about what time it is. If you're on a time-of-use tariff (paying different rates for peak vs off-peak hours), the \"5pm\" on your meter might not match the \"5pm\" in your contract. These regulations prevent billing chaos by keeping the *legal* time in these contracts locked to standard time, even while the rest of the state moves their clocks forward.\n\n**The catch:**\n\nParties can opt out – if your contract specifically says it runs on summer time, or if everyone agrees to use summer time, then these regulations don't force you to use standard time."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The regulations were amended (see note to Regulation 2 and the compilation table) to expand and specify the listed electricity retailers and to include Alinta entities and related contract types within the definition of \"prescribed energy agreement\", broadening which entities and agreements the construction rule applies to (effective 1 Jan 2014 per the compilation table)."},"complexity_factors":["Focused, single legal effect: a construction rule for time references in certain energy contracts (Regulation 4).","Multiple defined terms narrow or specify who is covered (Alinta entity; electricity retailer; electricity service; prescribed energy agreement) which requires cross‑checking definitions in Regulation 2.","Applies statewide and only during daylight saving periods, so temporal scope must be tracked by administrators and contracting parties (Regulation 3).","Practical implementation touches billing, metering, IT, supervisory control and pipeline/transportation arrangements referenced in the definitions, creating operational and renegotiation costs for parties (Regulation 2).","Amendment history altered definitions and enumerated entities, so practitioners must account for which versions/parties are captured (note to Regulation 2; compilation table)."],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations require that, during daylight saving periods, time‑based electricity contracts and related service agreements are to be read as referring to standard time rather than summer time, unless the contract or the parties state otherwise. They operate statewide and apply to electricity retailers, specified Alinta entities and counterparties to such agreements, fixing billing and operational time references and creating a modest compliance or renegotiation cost for parties who want a different rule."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/daylight-saving-regulations-2006","history":"/api/acts/daylight-saving-regulations-2006/history","analysis":"/api/acts/daylight-saving-regulations-2006/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/daylight-saving-regulations-2006/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/daylight-saving-regulations-2006/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/daylight-saving-regulations-2006/documents"}}