New Zealand Gazette – 2003 – No. 62

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✨ Commerce Act (Electricity Lines Thresholds) Notice 2003

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(b) if the restructuring takes place during the period from the first
assessment date to the second assessment date, the provisions in
subclause (1)(c) will apply as if the new price structure applied on and
from the first assessment date.

(3) If during the period from 8 August 2001 to 31 March 2004 a lines business is
involved in a purchase, merger, takeover, disposal, or other similar transaction,
which results in a change in its total customers or system length of 10% or more—

(a) if the transaction occurs during the period from 8 August 2001 to the
    first assessment date, subclause (1)(a) and (b) will apply as if the
    transaction occurred on 8 August 2001; and

(b) if the transaction occurs during the period from the first assessment date
    to 31 March 2004, subclause (1)(c) will apply as if the transaction
    occurred on the first assessment date.

(4) Despite the other provisions of this clause 5, if the Commission is satisfied that,
because of lack of information or subclauses (1) to (3) being clearly meaningless in
relation to a lines business, it is not practicable to determine whether the lines
business has complied with those subclauses, the lines business will be regarded
as having complied with the price path threshold if it demonstrates beyond
reasonable doubt, by use of an alternative approach that has equivalent effect to
those subclauses, that the substance of those subclauses has been complied with.

6 Quality threshold

(1) The quality threshold for lines businesses is as follows:

*For each lines business other than Transpower—*

(a) *interruption duration*: the SAIDI of the lines business for the period of
    12 months ending on the second assessment date is not to exceed the
    five-year average SAIDI of the lines business (calculated in accordance
    with the right-hand side of the following expression):

    SAIDI_2004 ≤ ( ( SAIDI_1999 + SAIDI_2000 + SAIDI_2001 + SAIDI_2002 + SAIDI_2003 ) / 5 )

    where:

    SAIDI_year  in relation to every year other than 2004—

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