NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 38

10 APRIL 2014

Authorities and Other Agencies of State Notices

Electricity Authority

Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 187 (AccuCal Limited)) Exemption Amendment Notice 2014

Pursuant to section 11(3) of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 (“Act”), the Electricity Authority (“Authority”) gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 187 (AccuCal Limited)) Exemption Amendment Notice 2014.

(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. Amendment to principal exemption—Replace clause 2 of the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 187 (AccuCal Limited)) Exemption Notice 2013* (“the principal exemption”) with:

“2. Exemption—AccuCal Limited (“AccuCal”) is exempted from compliance with the obligation in clause 4(2)(a) of Schedule 10.7 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 (“Code”), in respect of the metering installations at installation control point 0000032431HR99C.”

3. Reasons for this amendment—The reasons for amending the principal exemption are as follows:

(a) The Authority granted the principal exemption to AccuCal for the following reasons:

(i) Granting the requested exemption met the requirements in section 11(2) of the Act for granting exemptions;

(ii) there would be significant cost to replace the metering installations at the Ohaaki power station to comply with the obligation in clause 4(2)(a) of Schedule 10.7 of the Code;

(iii) the derivation of submission information from the metering installations by subtraction is as accurate as it would be if it was derived using actual metered data and was acceptable under the Code in the exact same configuration when the equipment was owned by the grid owner;

(iv) the exemption from clause 4(2)(a) of Schedule 10.7 of the Code will allow AccuCal, as the metering equipment provider (“MEP”), to arrange certification of the existing metering installations at this installation control point (“ICP”) even though the metering configuration currently uses subtraction to determine submission information; and

(v) the requested exemption will have no impact on any other participant or service provider, and will not affect any other Code provision;

(b) although the Authority approved granting the principal exemption in respect of ICP No. 0000032431HR99C, due to an administrative error, the exemption was inadvertently granted in respect of the incorrect ICP;

(c) it is therefore necessary to amend the principal exemption to refer to the correct ICP number; and

(d) accordingly, the Authority is satisfied that:

(i) for the reasons set out in the principal exemption, the amendment is necessary or desirable for the purpose of achieving the Authority’s objective under section 15; and

(ii) the benefit of the amendment outweighs any disadvantage resulting from any increased administration and compliance costs.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of April 2014.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:

DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.

New Zealand Gazette, 9 January 2014, No. 1, page 39
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Environmental Protection Authority

Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996

Notice of Approval of Code of Practice

Pursuant to sections 78 and 79 of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (“HSNO Act”), the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) advises that it approved on 27 March 2014, the Code of Practice HSNOCOP 6 Version 2.1 Flammable Liquids Tank Wagons.

This code of practice has been developed by the EPA and provides a means of compliance with Regulations 3–29, 32–37 and 42 of the Hazardous Substances (Tank Wagons and Transportable Containers) Regulations 2004 for the use of tank wagons for bulk transport of flammable liquids.

Pursuant to section 80(1) of the HSNO Act, this code may be inspected on request at the EPA, Level 10, Grant Thornton House, 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington 6011.

Pursuant to section 80(1)(b) of the HSNO Act, the code is available from the EPA website www.epa.govt.nz

ROB FORLONG, Chief Executive, Environmental Protection Authority.
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Determination of New Organisms

Pursuant to section 26 of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, the Environmental Protection Authority hereby determines that

Agathis atropurpurea, Agathis borneensis, Agathis dammara, Agathis kinabaluensis and Agathis silbae

are new organisms.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of March 2014.

DR DEBORAH READ, Chair, Decision-making Committee of the Authority.
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