Exemption—electricity supply bodies
49 Exemption—electricity supply bodies
If the sole use of a network unit is use by an electricity supply body to carry communications necessary or desirable for:
managing the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity; or
charging for the supply of electricity;
section 42 does not apply to the unit.
If:
the principal use of a network unit is use by an electricity supply body to carry communications necessary or desirable for:
managing the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity; or
charging for the supply of electricity; and
the remaining use of the unit is use by one or more carriers, or by one or more exempt network‑users, to supply carriage services and/or content services;
section 42 does not apply to the unit.
In this section:
electricity supply body means an authority, or a body corporate, that carries on a business, or performs a function, of:
generating, transmitting, distributing or supplying electricity; or
managing the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity.
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