Commercial and excluded activities for Act, s 256
222 Commercial and excluded activities for Act, s 256
For section 256(1), definition excluded activities, of the Act, a community service obligation for the charging of customers by a State electricity entity in accordance with price equalisation, or at a price fixed by the Minister, is a prescribed community service obligation.
For section 256(2) of the Act, negotiations between the Ministers and a State electricity entity about costs and charges for providing electricity as a community service obligation are declared to be commercial activities of the State electricity entity.
For section 256(2) of the Act, the activities of the System Operator for Queensland are declared to be commercial activities.
In this section—
Ministers means the Minister who administers the Act and the Minister who administers the Government Owned Corporations Act 1993.
price equalisation means a system for charging customers the same price for the supply of electricity, whether or not the cost of the supply is the same.
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