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South Australia
Electricity (Compensation for Blackouts) Amendment Bill
2009
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Electricity Act 1996.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity
Act 1996
4 Amendment of section 23—Licences authorising
operation of transmission or distribution network
5 Insertion of
Schedule
Schedule 1—Compensation for failure of electricity supply
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Compensation for Blackouts)
Amendment Act 2009.
This Act will come into operation 1 month after the day on which it is
assented to by the Governor.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Electricity
Act 1996
4—Amendment of
section 23—Licences authorising operation of transmission or distribution
network
Section 23—after subsection (2) insert:
(2a) The code provisions referred to in subsection (1)(n)(v) must
include provisions that require the electricity entity to provide compensation
to customers of not less than the amounts set out in Schedule 1 for any
periods for which the customers suffer a failure of electricity
supply.
(2b) The code provisions imposing a requirement referred to in
subsection (2a) do not apply—
(a) to a failure of electricity supply if the failure is due to an act or
omission done or made by the entity, or an officer or employee of the entity, in
bad faith or through negligence; or
(b) to a customer if the customer has negotiated a special contractual
agreement with the entity relating to the entity's liability for a failure of
electricity supply; or
(c) in circumstances in which the entity is, according to the code,
permitted to interrupt electricity supply, or excused from the obligation to
maintain electricity supply.
Before Schedule 1A insert:
Schedule 1—Compensation for failure of electricity
supply
For the purposes of section 23(2a) of the Act—
(a) compensation amounts to be provided for a failure of electricity
supply are as follows:
|
Period for which customer suffers failure of electricity
supply |
Amount of compensation |
|
More than 3 hours but less than 6 hours |
$150 |
|
6 hours or more but less than 9 hours |
$250 |
|
9 hours or more but less than 12 hours |
$350 |
|
12 hours or more but less than 15 hours |
$500 |
|
15 hours or more but less than 18 hours |
$750 |
|
18 hours or more |
$1 300 |
(b) if during a 48 hour period a customer suffers more than 1 period
of failure of electricity supply, the number of hours of failure of electricity
supply during the 48 hour period are to be aggregated and treated as
1 period, if that would result in the customer receiving more compensation
than if the periods of failure of electricity supply were treated as separate
periods.