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South Australia
Statutes Amendment (Electricity, Gas, Water and Sewerage
Accounts) Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Electricity
Act 1996, the Gas
Act 1997 and the Water
Industry Act 2012.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Commencement
3Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity
Act 1996
4Insertion of section
87A
87ACharges attributable
to price on greenhouse gas emissions to be set out in
accounts
Part 3—Amendment of Gas
Act 1997
5Insertion of section
83A
83ACharges attributable
to price on greenhouse gas emissions to be set out in
accounts
Part 4—Amendment of Water Industry
Act 2012
6Amendment of section 25—Licence
conditions
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Statutes Amendment (Electricity, Gas, Water
and Sewerage Accounts) Act 2012.
This Act will come into operation on 1 January 2013 immediately
after section 25 of the Water
Industry Act 2012 comes into operation.
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
After section 87 insert:
87A—Charges attributable to price on greenhouse gas
emissions to be set out in accounts
An entity authorised to sell electricity by retail (whether or not the
entity is required to hold a licence under this Act) must, in each account for
electricity charges, include details of the approximate amount of those charges
attributable to measures under the Clean Energy Act 2011 and related Acts
of the Commonwealth to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions.
Maximum penalty: $20 000.
Part 3—Amendment
of Gas Act 1997
After section 83 insert:
83A—Charges attributable to price on greenhouse gas
emissions to be set out in accounts
An entity authorised to sell gas by retail (whether or not the entity is
required to hold a licence under this Act) must, in each account for gas
charges, include details of the approximate amount of those charges attributable
to measures under the Clean Energy Act 2011 and related Acts of the
Commonwealth to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions.
Maximum penalty: $20 000.
Part 4—Amendment
of Water Industry Act
2012
6—Amendment
of section 25—Licence conditions
Section 25(1)—delete paragraph (e) and substitute:
(e) requiring the water industry entity to include in each account for
services provided—
(a) to designated customers, or customers of a designated
class—information prescribed by the regulations; and
(b) to all customers—in respect of the charges set out in the
account, details of the approximate amount of those charges attributable to
measures under the Clean Energy Act 2011 and related Acts of the
Commonwealth to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions;