Electricity Supply Industry Concession Order 2016 (Tas)

Electricity Supply Industry Concession Order 2016

I make the following order under section 43D of the Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 .

24 June 2016

PETER GUTWEIN

Treasurer

1. Short title This order may be cited as the Electricity Supply Industry Concession Order 2016 .

2. Commencement This order takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the Gazette.

3. Interpretation (1) In this order – Act means the Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 ; approved home-based life support machine means – (a) an oxygen concentrator; and (b) a peritoneal dialysis machine; and (c) a haemo-dialysis machine; and (d) a chronic positive pressure and airways regulator; and (e) a respirator (iron lung); and (f) a combination oxygen concentrator and chronic positive pressure and airways regulator; and (fa) a continuous positive airways pressure machine; and (g) a phototherapy machine; and (h) a left ventricular assist device; (i) a nebuliser machine (mains powered only); authorised person means the Secretary or a person authorised in writing by the Secretary; authorised retailer has the same meaning as in the Act; commencement date means the day on which this order takes effect; concession means a concession that an authorised retailer is required to provide in accordance with this order; corresponding concession means the annual electricity concession provided under the former concession order by an authorised retailer before the commencement date; electricity account, in relation to residential premises, means an invoice that – (a) is issued by an authorised retailer for the supply of electricity to the residential premises; and (b) relates to the purchase of electricity for personal, household or domestic use; former concession order means the Electricity Supply Industry Concession Order 2015 ; health care card means a health care card issued under section 1061ZS of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth; pensioner concession card means a pensioner concession card issued under section 1061ZF of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth or a pensioner concession card issued by the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs; prepayment meter system account, in relation to residential premises, means a contract or arrangement under which electricity, that is metered and paid for in accordance with a prepayment meter system, is supplied at the premises; prepayment meter system has the same meaning as in the National Energy Retail Law (Tasmania); residence determination means a residence determination made under section 197AB of the Migration Act 1958 of the Commonwealth; residential premises means residential premises situated in any part of Tasmania other than any off-shore island of Tasmania (except for Bruny Island); Secretary means the Secretary, or an Acting Secretary, of the Department of Treasury and Finance; specified bridging visa means a Bridging E (Class WE) (Subclass 050 or 051) visa granted under the Migration Act 1958 of the Commonwealth; surviving spouse, in relation to a deceased person, means – (a) the person to whom the deceased person was married immediately before the death of the deceased person; and (b) if the deceased person (whether or not he or she was, at the time of his or her death, married to a person) was, immediately before his or her death, in a significant relationship, within the meaning of the Relationships Act 2003 , with another person – that other person. (2) The Acts Interpretation Act 1931 applies to the interpretation of this order as if this order were regulations made under the Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 .