Electricity Act 1996

AEMO means the Australian Energy Market Operator Limited (ACN 072 010 327);

annual electricity consumption level means a level of consumption of electricity determined in accordance with the regulations (and the regulations may, for that purpose, make provision for the estimation or agreement of the level in specified circumstances);

authorised officer means a person appointed under Part

7 as an authorised officer;

bush fire means a fire that originates in, or spreads through, forest, scrub, grass or other vegetation;

bushfire risk area—see subsection (4);

Commission means the Essential Services Commission established under the

Essential

Services Commission Act 2002;

condition includes a limitation or restriction;

contravention includes a failure to comply;

council means a council within the meaning of the Local

Government Act 1999 and includes the Outback Areas Community Development Trust;

council officer means a person authorised by a council to exercise powers conferred on a council officer under this Act;

customer means a person who has a supply of electricity available from a transmission or distribution network for consumption by that person and includes—

disconnect electricity supply includes a procedure to interrupt or discontinue the electricity supply to a customer;

electrical equipment means any electrical appliance or wires, fittings, equipment or accessories beyond an electrical outlet at which fixed wiring terminates;

electrical installation means a set of wires and associated fittings, equipment and accessories installed in a place for the conveyance, control, measurement or use of electricity that is, or is to be, or has been, supplied for consumption in the place, including anything declared by regulation to be or form part of an electrical installation, but does not include—

electricity entity means a person licensed under Part

3 to carry on operations in the electricity supply industry and includes (where the context requires) a person who has been licensed to carry on operations in the electricity supply industry under that

Part whose licence has been suspended or cancelled or has expired;

electricity infrastructure means—

and

electricity officer means a person appointed under Part

4 as an electricity officer;

electricity supply industry means the industry involved in the generation, transmission, distribution, supply or sale of electricity or other operations of a kind prescribed by regulation;

employing authority means the person designated by proclamation as being the employing authority for the purposes of this definition;

generation of electricity means the operation of any kind of electricity generating plant and all incidental and related operations, but does not include anything declared by regulation not to be generation of electricity;

install includes place;

internal switching manual means an internal manual relating to switching that—

or

land includes—

National

Electricity Rules means the National Electricity Rules as defined in the National

Electricity (South Australia) Law;

National

Electricity (South Australia) Law—see the Schedule of the National

Electricity (South Australia) Act 1996;

National

Energy Retail Rules means the National Energy Retail Rules as defined in the National

Energy Retail Law (South Australia);

naturally occurring vegetation means vegetation that has not been planted or nurtured by any person;

NERL retailer means—

National

Energy Retail Law (South Australia);

or

Energy Retail Law (South Australia);

network services means—

non‑bushfire risk area means a part of the State not within the bushfire risk area;

nurture, in relation to vegetation, means actively assist the growth of the vegetation;

occupier of land or a place means a person who has or is entitled to possession or control of the land or place;

operations includes activities;

powerline means—

and

power system means a system for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity or a part of such a system;

principles of vegetation clearance means the regulations dealing with the clearance of vegetation from, or the planting or nurturing of vegetation near, public and private powerlines;

private land means—

or

Minister, agency or instrumentality of the Crown), except any such land vested in, or under the care, control or management of, a council and dedicated to, or held for, a public purpose;

private powerline means a powerline—

public powerline means any powerline except a private powerline;

regulated entity means—

NERL retailer;

retailing of electricity means the sale of electricity to customers, but does not include an activity declared by regulation not to be retailing of electricity;

small customer means a customer with an annual electricity consumption level less than the number of MW.h per year specified by regulation for that purpose, or any customer classified by regulation as a small customer;

supply of electricity means the delivery of electricity to a customer;

system controller means a person licensed under Part

3 to exercise system control over a power system;

Technical

Regulator means the person holding the office of Technical Regulator under Part

2;

telecommunications means the transmission of telephonic, radio, computer, television or other signals;

transmission or distribution network means the whole or a part of a system for the transmission or distribution of electricity, but does not include anything declared by regulation not to be a transmission or distribution network or

part of a transmission or distribution network;

Tribunal means the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal established under the South

Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013;

vegetation clearance scheme means a vegetation clearance scheme agreed or determined under Part

5.