111Regulations

111 Regulations (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. Electricity Reform Act 2000 65 (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; Electricity Reform Act 2000 66 (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.