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(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act.
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(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Regulations may deal with the
following matters:
(a) the generation, transmission, distribution, sale and supply of
electricity;
(b) the construction, installation and positioning of electricity
infrastructure and electrical installations;
(c) technical and operational requirements and standards and
monitoring and enforcing compliance with the prescribed
requirements and standards;
(d) system control and electricity market operations;
(da) the making or amending of any technical code established
under this Act, including the following:
(i) consultation before a technical code is made or
amended;
(ii) the matters that must, or may, be included in, or covered
by, a technical code;
(iii) the effect or operation of a technical code in specified
circumstances;
(iv) the publication of a technical code, and the provision of a
technical code to other parties;
(db) matters to be included in a consumer protection framework;
(dc) the operation of the retailer of last resort provisions of the
Retail Code, including the following:
(i) notifications to customers and other affected persons in
relation to a failed retailer and the transfer of the
customers to the retailer of last resort;
(ii) the duration and termination of any arrangements for the
supply of electricity under the retailer of last resort
arrangements;
(iii) other rights, powers and duties of the Utilities
Commission, a failed retailer, the retailer of last resort,
customers or other persons or entities involved in or
affected by the retailer of last resort arrangements;
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(e) the exemption (conditionally or unconditionally) of persons or
operations from the application of this Act or specified
provisions of this Act;
(f) fees to be paid in respect of any matter under this Act and the
recovery, refund, waiver or reduction of those fees;
(g) provide for the payment of a prescribed amount instead of a
penalty that may otherwise be imposed for an offence against
this Act or regulations made under this Act and for the service
of a notice relating to payment of the amount on a person
alleged to have committed the offence and the particulars to
be included in that notice; and
(h) penalties not exceeding 100 penalty units for offences against
the Regulations.
Note for subsection (2)(da)
Transitional provisions consequent on the repeal of the Electricity Networks
(Third Party Access) Act 2000, and relating to network technical codes, are
included in Part 4, Division 4 of the National Electricity (Northern Territory)
(National Uniform Legislation) Act 2015.
(3) If the Regulations grant an exemption from the requirement to hold
a licence under Part 3, the Regulations may require a person
exempted from the requirement to be treated as an electricity entity
for the purposes of specified provisions of this Act.
(4) The Regulations may provide that any act or thing, or kind of act or
thing, of or relating to an electricity entity or a related body
corporate of an electricity entity is authorised for a particular period
for the purposes of Part IV of the Competition and Consumer
Act 2010 (Cth).
(6) The Regulations may:
(a) be of general application or limited in application according to
the persons, areas, times or circumstances to which they are
expressed to apply;
(b) provide that a matter or thing in respect of which regulations
may be made is to be determined, regulated or prohibited
according to the discretion of the Minister or the Utilities
Commission; and
(c) refer to or incorporate, wholly or partially and with or without
modification, any standard or other document prepared or
published by a body referred to in the Regulations, as is in
force from time to time or as in force at a particular time.