Pursuant to section 11 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 ("Act"), the Electricity Authority gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 168 (Arc Innovations Limited)) Exemption Notice 2013.
(2) This notice comes into force on 29 August 2013.
2. Exemption-Arc Innovations Limited ("Arc") is exempted from compliance with item 16 of Table 1 of Schedule 11.4 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code") in respect of providing metering component serial numbers for its first generation advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) metering installations.
3. Term-This exemption expires at the close of
31 December 2018.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) granting the exemption meets the requirements in section 11(2) of the Act for granting exemptions;
(b) traders supplying installation control points ("ICPs") that use Arc's first generation AMI metering installations would incur higher administration and compliance costs in changing their internal systems to align existing customer metering records with the new serial numbers in the registry; and
(c) the exemption will have little or no impact on service providers or other traders supplying ICPs that do not use Arc's first generation AMI metering installations, and will not affect any other Code provisions.
Dated at Wellington this 8th day of July 2013.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.