1. Pursuant to section 172I of the Electricity Act 1992 (“Act”), I notify the amendment of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003 (“Rules”) under section 172H of
the Act.
2. The empowering provision for the Electricity Governance Regulations, in relation to which the amendment to the Rules is made, is section 172D (1) (1) of the Act.
3. The amendment is to clause 20 of Schedule C4 of Part C of the Rules to require the system operator to use reasonable efforts to publish all temporary security constraints except frequency-keeping constraints, within 10 minutes of their being applied. This information will be published on the electricity industry information system.
4. Pursuant to section 172Z (4) of the Act, the reasons for my decision to amend the Rules are that:
(a) it increases the certainty about which information will be published; and
(b) electronic publication offers efficiency benefits for both the system operator and market participants.
5. These rules come into force on 13 December 2006.
6. Copies of the Rules may be inspected free of charge or purchased from the Electricity Commission, Level Seven, ASB Bank Tower, 2 Hunter Street, Wellington. The Rules can also be viewed on the Electricity Commission web site:
http://www.electricitycommission.govt.nz/rulesandregs/rules
Dated at Wellington this 18th day of October 2006.
DAVID PARKER, Minister of Energy.