NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 152

15 OCTOBER 2009

Authorities and Other Agencies of State Notices

Electricity Commission

Electricity Governance Regulations 2003

Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 107 (TrustPower Limited)) Exemption Notice 2009

Pursuant to Regulation 194 of the Electricity Governance Regulations 2003, the Electricity Commission (“Commission”) gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 107 (TrustPower Limited)) Exemption Notice 2009.

(2) This notice comes into force on 15 October 2009.

2. Exemption—TrustPower Limited (“TrustPower”) is exempted from compliance with Rule 3.2 of Part D of the Electricity Governance Rules (“Rules”) and Rule 5 of Schedule J3 of Part J of the Rules.

3. Terms and conditions—This exemption is granted on the following conditions:

(a) This exemption expires on the earlier of:
(i) the close of a five-year period (on 14 October 2014); and
(ii) the date upon which the customer switches from TrustPower to another retailer;

(b) the exemption only applies to the ICP 0007725030WAFB4; and

(c) TrustPower must treat the load as standard unmetered load for the purposes of recording details of the type and capacity in the registry.

4. Reasons for granting the exemption—The reasons for granting this exemption are:

(a) without an exemption, TrustPower:
(i) will incur significant expenditure and complexity in fitting meters to the streetlights for low consumption volumes; and
(ii) will incur significant ongoing compliance costs associated with a distributed unmetered load database for low consumption;

(b) streetlights are static load and have little annual variation. Most changes for load are associated with changes in lamp wattage that can be accurately tracked;

(c) by imposing a condition that TrustPower treat the load as standard unmetered load, the information will still be recorded in the registry; and

(d) the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers and will not affect any other rules.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of October 2009.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:

DAVID CAYGILL, Chair.
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Environmental Risk Management Authority

Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996

Organic Peroxides, Toxic [6.1], Corrosive Group Standard Notice 2009

Pursuant to section 96B(1) of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (“the HSNO Act”), the Environmental Risk Management Authority (“ERMA New Zealand”) gives notice that a Group Standard is amended.

Notice

1. Title—(1) This notice is the Organic Peroxides, Toxic [6.1], Corrosive Group Standard Notice 2009.

2. Commencement—This notice comes into force 28 days after the date of its notification in the New Zealand Gazette.

3. Incorporation by Reference—The Organic Peroxides, Toxic [6.1], Corrosive Group Standard 2009 with HSNO Approval Number HSR100055 (“the Group Standard”) is incorporated by reference into this notice.

4. Background—(1) The aim of the Group Standard is to more effectively manage the risks of toxic, corrosive, organic peroxides by approving these substances within a short timeframe. This is in contrast to the considerably longer timeframe that would be required to approve the substances under Part 5 of the HSNO Act. The Group Standard allows similar types of substances to be given the same approval thereby facilitating the introduction of new products into the Group Standard.

(2) The hazard classifications referred to in this notice are set out in the Hazardous Substances (Classification) Regulations 2001.

5. Scope of Group Standard—(1) A substance covered by the Group Standard must be:
   (a) an organic peroxide (HSNO 5.2B, 5.2C, 5.2D, 5.2E, 5.2F or 5.2G classification); and
   (b) an acute toxicant (HSNO 6.1B or 6.1C classification); and
   (c) a skin corrosive (HSNO 8.2B or 8.2C classification).

(2) In addition to the hazards referred to in subclause (1), a substance may have any of the following (but only the following) hazards:
(a) aspiration hazard;
(b) metallic corrosivity, HSNO 8.1A classification;
(c) eye corrosivity, HSNO 8.3A classification;
(d) eye irritancy, HSNO 6.4A classification;
(e) respiratory sensitisation, HSNO 6.5A classification;
(f) contact sensitisation, HSNO 6.5B classification;
(g) mutagenicity, HSNO 6.6A or 6.6B classification;
(h) reproductive toxicity, HSNO 6.8A, 6.8B or 6.8C classification;
(i) target organ toxicity, HSNO 6.9A or 6.9B classification;
(j) ecotoxicity, HSNO class 9.

(3) This Group Standard excludes: