sec.203Working out electrical safety contribution amounts

### sec.203 Working out electrical safety contribution amounts A regulation may prescribe all things necessary or convenient for establishing and operating arrangements for the payment of electrical safety contributions. Without limiting subsection (1) , a regulation may do any of the following— prescribe requirements for working out the amount of the electrical safety contribution payable by each distribution entity for a financial year; fix, or prescribe how to fix, the total amount to be collected as electrical safety contributions; subject to subsection (3) , fix, or prescribe how to fix, the relative size, as between the distribution entities, of each distribution entity’s electrical safety contribution; provide for the payment of electrical safety contributions by instalments; provide for the payment of a proportion of the amount of an electrical safety contribution in circumstances, identified in the regulation, in which it is not appropriate for a distribution entity to have to pay an amount for a full financial year; provide for an adjustment of the amount of an electrical safety contribution to take account of significant change in the circumstances on which the working out of electrical safety contributions was based. The relative size of a distribution entity’s electrical safety contribution must be based on the number of the distribution entity’s retail premises. Subsections (1) and (2) extend, and do not limit, the Governor in Council’s power to make regulations under this Act. (sec.203-ssec.1) A regulation may prescribe all things necessary or convenient for establishing and operating arrangements for the payment of electrical safety contributions. (sec.203-ssec.2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a regulation may do any of the following— prescribe requirements for working out the amount of the electrical safety contribution payable by each distribution entity for a financial year; fix, or prescribe how to fix, the total amount to be collected as electrical safety contributions; subject to subsection (3) , fix, or prescribe how to fix, the relative size, as between the distribution entities, of each distribution entity’s electrical safety contribution; provide for the payment of electrical safety contributions by instalments; provide for the payment of a proportion of the amount of an electrical safety contribution in circumstances, identified in the regulation, in which it is not appropriate for a distribution entity to have to pay an amount for a full financial year; provide for an adjustment of the amount of an electrical safety contribution to take account of significant change in the circumstances on which the working out of electrical safety contributions was based. (sec.203-ssec.3) The relative size of a distribution entity’s electrical safety contribution must be based on the number of the distribution entity’s retail premises. (sec.203-ssec.4) Subsections (1) and (2) extend, and do not limit, the Governor in Council’s power to make regulations under this Act. - (a) prescribe requirements for working out the amount of the electrical safety contribution payable by each distribution entity for a financial year; - (b) fix, or prescribe how to fix, the total amount to be collected as electrical safety contributions; - (c) subject to subsection (3) , fix, or prescribe how to fix, the relative size, as between the distribution entities, of each distribution entity’s electrical safety contribution; - (d) provide for the payment of electrical safety contributions by instalments; - (e) provide for the payment of a proportion of the amount of an electrical safety contribution in circumstances, identified in the regulation, in which it is not appropriate for a distribution entity to have to pay an amount for a full financial year; - (f) provide for an adjustment of the amount of an electrical safety contribution to take account of significant change in the circumstances on which the working out of electrical safety contributions was based.