4Terms used

4. Terms used

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

acquisition in relation to land or any estate or interest in land includes taking or resumption, and cognate expressions have a corresponding meaning;

apparatus means any apparatus, equipment, plant, or appliance in which energy is capable of being, or is, or is intended to be transmitted, distributed, used, consumed or converted, and includes any meter, fitting, or connection;

charges includes any sum due from the consumer to an energy operator pursuant to section 62(1);

consumer installation includes all wiring, piping, apparatus and other works not being the property of the supplier of energy on any premises to which energy is, or is intended to be, supplied from the position at which the delivery of energy is made;

Coordinator of Energy means the Coordinator of Energy referred to in section 4 of the Energy Coordination Act 1994;

distribution works means any works, apparatus or system, utilised or capable of being or intended to be utilised for the purpose of transmitting or distributing energy to consumers and includes any other equipment or plant used in conjunction therewith, and any part thereof;

electricity corporation means a body established by the Electricity Corporations Act 2005 section 4(1);

energy includes electrical, hydro‑electrical, chemical, thermal, tidal, nuclear, or solar energy and all other kinds of energy however derived, of whatever form or description, or however used, and the term extends to comprise the source or sources of any such energy;

energy operator means —

(a) an electricity corporation if regulations have not been made for the purposes of section 45(1) of the Electricity Industry Act 2004;

(b) in a prescribed provision as defined in section 45(1) of the Electricity Industry Act 2004, a person who, under that section, is included in a reference in that prescribed provision to an energy operator;

(c) in a provision of this Act referred to in Schedule 2 Part 1 or 2 of the Energy Coordination Act 1994, a person who, under section 11ZO of that Act, is included in a reference in that provision to an energy operator;

(d) in a provision to which paragraphs (b) and (c) both apply, a person referred to in either of those paragraphs;

generating works means any works, apparatus or system whatsoever utilised or capable of being or intended to be utilised for the production or generation of energy, or for the manufacture or treatment or storage of energy for supply or use, or for the conversion of energy from one form into another, up to the point at which transmission or distribution commences for the purposes of making supply, and includes all land, building, structures and appurtenances pertaining thereto, any other equipment or plant used in conjunction therewith, and any part thereof;