Australian Capital Territory
Utilities (General) Regulation 2017    
SL2017-35
made under the
Utilities Act 2000
Republication No 1
Effective:  1 December 2017
Republication date: 1 December 2017
Regulation not amended

About this republication
The republished law
This is a republication of the Utilities (General) Regulation 2017, made under the Utilities Act 2000 (including any amendment made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 (Editorial changes)) as in force on 1 December 2017.  It also includes any commencement, repeal or expiry affecting this republished law.  
The legislation history and amendment history of the republished law are set out in endnotes 3 and 4. 
Kinds of republications
The Parliamentary Counsel’s Office prepares 2 kinds of republications of ACT laws (see the ACT legislation register at www.legislation.act.gov.au):
•	authorised republications to which the Legislation Act 2001 applies
•	unauthorised republications.
The status of this republication appears on the bottom of each page.
Editorial amendments
The Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 authorises the Parliamentary Counsel to make editorial amendments and other changes of a formal nature when preparing a law for republication.  Editorial changes do not change the effect of the law, but have effect as if they had been made by an Act commencing on the republication date (see Legislation Act 2001, s 115 and s 117).  The changes are made if the Parliamentary Counsel considers they are desirable to bring the law into line, or more closely into line, with current legislative drafting practice.  
This republication does not include amendments made under part 11.3 (see endnote 1).
Uncommenced provisions and amendments
If a provision of the republished law has not commenced, the symbol  U  appears immediately before the provision heading.  Any uncommenced amendments that affect this republished law are accessible on the ACT legislation register (www.legislation.act.gov.au). For more information, see the home page for this law on the register.
Modifications
If a provision of the republished law is affected by a current modification, the symbol  M  appears immediately before the provision heading.  The text of the modifying provision appears in the endnotes.  For the legal status of modifications, see the Legislation Act 2001, section 95.
Penalties
At the republication date, the value of a penalty unit for an offence against this law is $150 for an individual and $750 for a corporation (see Legislation Act 2001, s 133).

Australian Capital Territory
Utilities (General) Regulation 2017
made under the
Utilities Act 2000
    
Contents
	Page
	1	Name of regulation	2
	2	Notes	2
	3	Exempt class of utility service—Act, s 15A	2
Endnotes
	1	About the endnotes	3
	2	Abbreviation key	3
	3	Legislation history	4

Australian Capital Territory
Utilities (General) Regulation 2017     

made under the
Utilities Act 2000

    

  

1	Name of regulation
This regulation is the Utilities (General) Regulation 2017.
2	Notes
A note included in this regulation is explanatory and is not part of this regulation.
Note	See the Legislation Act, s 127 (1), (4) and (5) for the legal status of notes.
3	Exempt class of utility service—Act, s 15A
	(1)	An embedded network is an exempt class of utility service.
	(2)	In this section:
embedded network means an embedded network under the national electricity rules, chapter 10 (Glossary).
Note	National electricity rules is defined in the Act, dict.

Endnotes
1	About the endnotes
Amending and modifying laws are annotated in the legislation history and the amendment history.  Current modifications are not included in the republished law but are set out in the endnotes.
Not all editorial amendments made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 are annotated in the amendment history.  Full details of any amendments can be obtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Uncommenced amending laws are not included in the republished law.  The details of these laws are underlined in the legislation history.  Uncommenced expiries are underlined in the legislation history and amendment history.
If all the provisions of the law have been renumbered, a table of renumbered provisions gives details of previous and current numbering.  
The endnotes also include a table of earlier republications.
2	Abbreviation key

A = Act	NI = Notifiable instrument	
AF = Approved form	o = order	
am = amended	om = omitted/repealed	
amdt = amendment	ord = ordinance	
AR = Assembly resolution	orig = original	
ch = chapter	par = paragraph/subparagraph	
CN = Commencement notice	pres = present	
def = definition	prev = previous	
DI = Disallowable instrument	(prev...) = previously	
dict = dictionary	pt = part	
disallowed = disallowed by the Legislative 	r = rule/subrule	
Assembly	reloc = relocated	
div = division	renum = renumbered	
exp = expires/expired	R[X] = Republication No	
Gaz = gazette	RI = reissue	
hdg = heading	s = section/subsection	
IA = Interpretation Act 1967	sch = schedule	
ins = inserted/added	sdiv = subdivision	
LA = Legislation Act 2001	SL = Subordinate law	
LR = legislation register	sub = substituted	
LRA = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996	underlining = whole or part not commenced	
mod = modified/modification	or to be expired	

3	Legislation history
This regulation was made as part of the Utilities Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (see A2017-33 s 6) and is taken to have been made under the Utilities Act 2000 A2000-65 (see s 262 (1) as ins by A2017-33, s 5).
Utilities (General) Regulation 2017 SL2017-35
taken to have been notified LR 7 November 2017 (A2000-65 s 262 (3) (a) as ins by A2017-33 s 5)
s 1 commenced 7 November 2017 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder taken to have commenced 1 December 2017 (A2000-65 s 262 (3) (b) as ins by A2017-33 s 5)

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