Section 191 - Electricity Supply Act 1995 - Regulations

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(1) The Governor may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, for or with respect to the following matters—

(a) (Repealed)

(b) the functions of customer consultative groups,

(c)–(c3) (Repealed)

(d) the conditions that may be imposed on licences,

(e) the functions of authorised officers,

(e1) requirements for the marking or labelling of the connection point in relation to the premises of wholesale or retail customers,

(e2) distributor service standards for distributors, including enforcement of such standards,

(f) the obligations of an energy ombudsman under an approved energy ombudsman scheme to provide copies of reports to the Minister and to report to the Minister on the operation of the scheme,

(f1) facilitating the Government’s social programs for electricity, including—

(i) the adoption of Codes with respect to the implementation of any such program in relation to a specified class or specified classes of customers, and

(ii) the payment and assessment of implementation and enforcement costs, and

(iii) the publication of Codes, and

(iv) the application of such programs to distributors, retailers, exempt sellers and other persons, and

(v) the enforcement of Codes, in particular the giving and enforcement of undertakings with respect to compliance with Codes, and

(vi) the conferral of jurisdiction on the Local Court with respect to the enforcement of undertakings,

(g) the procedures to be observed by network operators in connection with calling for tenders and the matters in respect of which network operators must call for tenders,

(g1) the development and implementation by network operators of plans designed to ensure the safe operation of their transmission or distribution systems (including plans relating to the provision of safe electrical installations for connection to distribution systems),