AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ELECTRICITY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 9 of 1988

The Electricity Regulations (Amendment) amends the Electricity Regulations made under the Electricity Ordinance 1971.

The amendment is consequential to the establishment of an Australian Capital Territory Electricity and Water Authority under the Electricity and Water Ordinance 1988 which provides that the Authority’s functions are to supply and manage electricity and water and to provide sewerage services.

The regulation provides that the Schedule to the Electricity Regulations is amended by inserting in Forms 1, 2 and 3 the words “and Water” before “Authority”.

ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR THE ARTS AND TERRITORIES