Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any matter required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), regulations may be made under that subsection for or with respect to—
(a) the undergrounding, relocation, modification, replacement or removal of distribution systems, including—
(i) proposals for the undergrounding, relocation, modification, replacement or removal of distribution systems; and
(ii) requiring a distribution company which receives a proposal for the undergrounding, relocation, modification, replacement or removal of a distribution system to make an offer to underground, relocate, modify, replace or remove a distribution system;
(b) the content of proposals referred to in paragraph (a)(i) or offers referred to in paragraph (a)(ii), including the price of, or an estimate of costs to be incurred for, the undergrounding, relocation, modification, replacement or removal of a distribution system;
(c) the determination, calculation, allocation or breakdown of a price or costs referred to in paragraph (b) or allocation or apportionment of costs referred to in that paragraph;
(d) requiring a distribution company to call for tenders for the performance of—
(i) works to augment or extend a distribution system for the purpose of connecting generating units or customer premises to the system and associated works;
(ii) works arising out of an offer to underground, relocate, modify, replace or remove a distribution system and associated works;
(e) the development or adoption of tender policies, or compliance with tender policies, by a distribution company, for the performance of works referred to in paragraph (d);
(f) the content of tender policies referred to in paragraph (e) including—
(i) the price, or the estimated costs, of the works; and
(ii) procedures for dealing with and resolving disputes that may arise in relation to the performance of the works;
S. 12A(2)(g) amended by No. 33/2021 s. 17(1)(a).
(g) the public availability of tender policies referred to in paragraph (e);
S. 12A(2)(h) inserted by No. 33/2021 s. 17(1)(b).
(h) providing that the following form part of the national electricity system (a regulated stand-alone power system )—
(i) a particular stand-alone power system, which consists of a distribution system owned, controlled or operated, or proposed to be owned, controlled or operated, by a regulated distribution system operator;
(ii) a stand-alone power system, which consists of a distribution system owned, controlled or operated, or proposed to be owned, controlled or operated, by a regulated distribution system operator, that belongs to a particular class of stand-alone power systems.
S. 12A(2A) inserted by No. 33/2021 s. 17(2).
(2A) Without limiting subsection (2)(h), regulations made under this section may provide that a particular stand-alone power system, or a class of stand-alone power systems, forms part of the national electricity system by reference to—
(a) the particular geographic area in which the stand-alone power system, or class of stand-alone power systems, is or will be located; or
(b) the regulated distribution system operator that owns, controls or operates, or proposes to own, control or operate, the stand-alone power system or class of stand-alone power systems; or
(c) whether the stand-alone power system, or class of stand-alone power systems, complies with any requirements specified by the Rules.
(3) Regulations made under this section may—
(a) be of general or limited application;
(b) differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance;
(c) apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification, or method, formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any person or body whether—
(i) wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or
(ii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then; or
(iii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published or amended from time to time;
S. 12A(3)(d) amended by No. 33/2021 s. 17(3)(a).
(d) confer a function, power or discretionary authority or impose a duty on the Minister, the ESC or the AER;
S. 12A(3)(e) amended by No. 33/2021 s. 17(3)(a).
(e) leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by the Minister, the ESC or the AER;
S. 12A(3)(ea) inserted by No. 33/2021 s. 17(3)(b).
(ea) direct the ESC to make amendments to any instrument made by the ESC to give effect to any matter specified in the regulations;
S. 12A(3)(eb) inserted by No. 33/2021 s. 17(3)(b).
(eb) modify the application of a specified provision of the National Electricity (Victoria) Law or the Rules for and with respect to a regulated stand-alone power system or a class of regulated stand-alone power systems;
(f) provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations—
(i) whether unconditionally or on specified conditions; or
(ii) either wholly or to such an extent as is specified.
(4) Regulations made for or in relation to the content of proposals for the undergrounding, relocation, modification, replacement or removal of distribution systems, or the content of tenders for the performance of works referred to in subsection (2)(d), have effect according to their tenor despite anything to the contrary in any agreement or contract.
(5) In this section—
"costs" includes avoided costs;
"distribution company" has the same meaning as in the
Electricity Industry Act 2000 .
Pt 3 (Heading and ss 13– 16) repealed by No. 28/2007 s. 3(Sch. item 44), new Pt 3 (Heading and ss 13 – 16) inserted by No. 66/2007 s. 4.
Part 3—Modification of application of the National Electricity Law
Pt 3 Div. 1 (Heading) inserted by No. 55/2010 s. 39.
Division 1—Interpretation
New s. 13 inserted by No. 66/2007 s. 4.