3226 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 120 16 SEPTEMBER 2010

Declaration Extending State of Local Emergency

Pursuant to section 71 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002, I, Ronald David Keating, extend the state of local emergency declared in respect of the Canterbury earthquake on 4 September 2010, all of Waimakariri District, from Wednesday 15 September 2010 at 12.00 midday until Thursday 16 September 2010 at 12.00 midday.

Declared By: Ronald David Keating.

Designation: Mayor, Waimakariri District Council.

Time and Date of Declaration: 11.00am on Wednesday 15 September 2010.

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Authorities and Other Agencies of State Notices

Electricity Commission

Electricity Governance Regulations 2003

Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 114 (Mighty River Power Limited)) Exemption Notice 2010

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

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 114 (Mighty River Power Limited)) Exemption Notice 2010.

(2) This notice comes into force on 16 September 2010.

2. Exemption—Mighty River Power Limited (“Mighty River”) is exempted from compliance with Rule 5.3 of Schedule J3 of Part J of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003.

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

(a) The exemption will expire on the earlier of:

(i) 15 September 2012; and

(ii) the date upon which the customer switches from Mighty River to another retailer; and

(b) the exemption will only apply to the ICP 0000031152CPB70.

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

(a) Mighty River will incur significant ongoing compliance costs associated with running an extract each day from the distributed unmetered load database; and

(b) 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 10th day of September 2010.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:

DAVID CAYGILL, Chair.

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Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 117 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2010

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

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 117 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2010.

(2) This notice comes into force on 16 September 2010.

2. Exemption—Contact Energy Limited (“Contact Energy”) is exempted from compliance with Rule 3.2 of Part D and Rule 5 of Schedule J3 of Part J of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003.

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

(a) This exemption expires on the earlier of:

(i) 15 September 2012; and

(ii) the date upon which the customer switches from Contact Energy to another retailer;

(b) the exemption from Rule 3.2 of Part D only applies to the following installation control points (“ICPs”):

(i) 0014189134HBC96;

(ii) 0015726240EL9CB;

(iii) 0000519820HB023;

(iv) 0010429464EL214; and

(v) 0010432432ELC92;

(c) the exemption from Rule 5 of Schedule J3 of Part J only applies to the following ICPs:

(i) 0014189134HBC96; and

(ii) 0000519820HB023; and

(d) Contact Energy must treat the load at the ICPs listed in paragraph (c) 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) Contact Energy will incur significant expenditure and complexity in fitting meters to the lights for low consumption volumes;

(b) Contact Energy will incur significant ongoing compliance costs associated with a distributed unmetered load database for low consumption;

(c) the load is static and will have little annual variation. Most changes for static load are changes that can be accurately tracked;

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

(e) 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 10th day of September 2010.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:

DAVID CAYGILL, Chair.

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