1. Pursuant to section 38 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 (“EI Act”) and the Legislation Act 2019, and having complied with section 39 of the EI Act, the Electricity Authority (“Authority”) gives notice of making the Electricity Industry Participation Code Amendment (Regular and Event-Driven Provision of Information to the Authority) 2022 (“amendment”).

2. The amendment was made on 23 June 2022 and comes into force on 1 August 2022.

3. The amendment amends the Electricity Industry Participation Code (“Code”) to:

1. permit the Authority to publish notices specifying information that a participant must, on a regular basis or as a result of an identified event, provide to the Authority;
2. set requirements that must be specified in notices, consultation requirements for the making of notices, and the matters that the Authority must be satisfied of before publishing a notice;
3. require participants to provide the information specified in a notice to the Authority;
4. provide protections for confidential information, information subject to legal professional privilege and for any statement or document that might be self-incriminating; and
5. permit the Authority to amend notices.

4. The amendment is secondary legislation for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2019 and is administered by the Authority.

5. A copy of the amendment and the Code is available on the Authority’s website: http://www.ea.govt.nz/code-and-compliance/the-code/.

6. A copy of the amendment and the Code may also be inspected free of charge or purchased from the Authority, Level 7, Harbour Tower, 2 Hunter Street, Wellington (changing to Level 7, Aon Tower, 1 Willis Street, Wellington from 4 July 2022).

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of June 2022.

Dr NICOLA LANE CRAUFORD, Chair, Electricity Authority.