NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 173

Reference price in euros per kilogram
Reference price in NZ$ per kilogram
Note: The alternative duty rate takes effect when exchange rates are such that the alternative duty is lower than the normal duty, and only where the normal duty is a lesser duty.**

1The New Zealand Customs Service holds a confidential list of the Reference Price amounts for the exporters covered by the Third Schedule to this notice. Venus Growers Co-operative and Manuel Garcia Campoy SA also hold the confidential Reference Price amounts relating to those firms.

2Exporters for whom separate Reference Price amounts have not been established may lodge a request, backed by the necessary supporting evidence, that Reference Price amounts be established.

3The duty payable by other exporters through the application of the specified ad valorem percentage rates cannot exceed the duty payable through the application of these Reference Price amounts. The New Zealand Customs Service holds a confidential list of such Reference Price amounts.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of December 2003.

LIANNE DALZIEL, Minister of Commerce.

A copy of the non-confidential version of the Final Report which contains details of the reassessment and the conclusions reached, is available from the Manager, Trade Remedies Group, Ministry of Economic Development, P.O. Box 1473, Wellington.

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(h) Part H provides for the clearing and settlement of wholesale electricity sales and purchases, including ancillary services, and prudential requirements.

(i) Part I provides for interim dispensations in respect of Part C, certain existing common quality agreements, the process for transition from MARIA and NZEM, and for existing ancillary service arrangements.

(j) The core operational date for the new regime is 1 March 2004. However, various Parts of the Rules come into force on 16 February 2004 to facilitate trading on 1 March 2004 (see paragraph 4 below).

4. Parts A, G, H and I of the Rules come into force on 16 February 2004. Parts C, D and E of the Rules come into force on 1 March 2004.

5. Copies of the Rules may be inspected free of charge or purchased from the Electricity Governance Board (also known as the Electricity Commission), Level Seven, ASB Tower, 2 Hunter Street, Wellington, or from the offices of the Ministry of Economic Development, 33 Bowen Street, Wellington.

The Rules can also be viewed on the Electricity Governance Board web site: http://www.electricitycommission.govt.nz

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of December 2003.

PETE HODGSON, Minister of Energy.

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Electricity Act 1992

Notice of Making of Electricity Governance Rules 2003

1. Pursuant to section 172I of the Electricity Act 1992, I notify the making of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003 (“the Rules”) under section 172H of the Electricity Act 1992.

2. The empowering provisions for the electricity governance regulations in relation to which the Rules are made are sections 172D (2) (a), (b) and (e) of the Electricity Act 1992.

3. A brief description of the nature of the Rules follows:

The Rules provide for the establishment and operation of the wholesale electricity market, for quality and security standards relating to the transmission system, and related matters. In particular:

(a) Part A provides for definitions and general principles of construction.

(b) There is at present no Part B.

(c) Part C provides for:

• obligations of the system operator in relation to the real time delivery of common quality and dispatch, and a policy statement in relation to the system operator;

• obligations of asset owners, arrangements in respect of their assets, including equivalence arrangements and dispensations;

• ancillary service arrangements.

(d) Part D provides for metering arrangements.

(e) Part E provides for electricity registry information and customer switching.

(f) There is at present no Part F.

(g) Part G provides for the trading, pricing and reconciliation of wholesale electricity.

Testing Laboratory Registration Act 1972

Reappointment of a Member of the Testing Laboratories Registration Council

Pursuant to section 4 of the Testing Laboratory Registration Act 1972, Lianne Dalziel, Minister of Commerce, has been pleased to reappoint

Graeme Robertson, of Nelson

as a member of the Testing Laboratories Registration Council for a period of three years commencing 1 January 2004.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of November 2003.

LIANNE DALZIEL, Minister of Commerce.

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Education

Education Act 1989

Notice Amending the National Administration Guidelines

Pursuant to section 60A of the Education Act 1989 (incorporating all amendments), the Minister of Education makes the following amendments to the National Administration Guidelines notified in the New Zealand Gazette, 29 April 1993, page 1086 (as amended on 27 June 1996 and 25 November 1999).

The National Administration Guidelines are amended by deleting existing clause 1 (iii) and substituting the following clause:

(iii) on the basis of good quality assessment information, identify students and groups of students;