(Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice Revocation Notice 2013
Pursuant to section 11(3) of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 ("Act"), the Electricity Authority ("Authority") gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 160 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice Revocation Notice 2013.
(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Revocation-The Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 160 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2012* is revoked.
3. Reasons for revoking the exemption-The reasons for revoking this exemption are:
(a) revoking the exemption meets the requirements in section 11(3) of the Act for revoking exemptions;
(b) in November 2012, the Authority approved
the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 160 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice
2012 ("Exemption 160") being granted, to
exempt Contact Energy Limited ("Contact") from clause 11 of Schedule 15.3 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code");
(c) the Gazette Notice for Exemption 160* incorrectly exempts Contact only from subclause (3) of clause 11 of Schedule 15.3 of the Code; and
(d) the Authority has subsequently issued a corrected Gazette NoticeÅ, which exempts Contact from all
of clause 11 of Schedule 15.3 of the Code, making Exemption 160 redundant.
Dated at Wellington this 9th day of December 2013.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.
*New Zealand Gazette, 15 November 2012, No. 136, page 3984
ÅNew Zealand Gazette, 24 October 2013, No. 144, page 3950