Title: Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) AmendmentBill 2009
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: ha145

House of Assembly—No 145
As laid on the table and read a first time, 24 September 2009

Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009

Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009
Part 1—Preliminary

Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009
Preliminary—Part 1

Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity Act 1996

Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009
Amendment of Electricity Act 1996—Part 2

Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009
Schedule 1—Transitional provision

Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009
Transitional provision—Schedule 1

South Australia
Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Bill 2009
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Electricity Act 1996.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity Act 1996
4	Amendment of section 36AC—Interpretation
5	Amendment of section 36AD—Feeding‑in of electricity to networks by domestic customers
Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1	Transitional provision

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment Act 2009.
2—Commencement
	(1)	Subject to subsection (2), this Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
	(2)	If a provision of this Act has not been brought into operation sooner, it will, by force of this subsection, come into operation 3 months after assent.
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Electricity Act 1996
4—Amendment of section 36AC—Interpretation
Section 36AC—after the definition of qualifying generator insert:
renewable energy price means, in relation to electricity fed into a distribution network by a qualifying customer—
	(a)	the default contract price (GST exclusive) applying to the relevant electricity entity under section 36AB for small customers who consume electricity for domestic light or power at the lowest rate per day (expressed as cents per kWh); plus
	(b)	$0.44 per kWh;
5—Amendment of section 36AD—Feeding‑in of electricity to networks by domestic customers
	(1)	Section 36AD(1)(b)—delete "the amount of $0.44 per kWh" and substitute:
an amount equal to the renewable energy price
	(2)	Section 36AD(1)(b)—after "under paragraph (a)" insert:
(being the renewable energy price applying at the time that the electricity is fed into the network)
	(3)	Section 36AD—after subsection (4) insert:
	(5)	Nothing in this section prevents an electricity entity agreeing to pay to a qualifying customer an amount in excess of the renewable energy price for electricity fed into a distribution network.

Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1—Transitional provision
The amendments made by this Act will apply to electricity fed into a distribution network under section 36AC of the Electricity Act 1996 after the commencement of this Act.

HA GP 229-B: Mr Mitch Williams MP