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ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 94D
Requirement to provide information in connection with electricity supply emergency
94D Requirement to provide information in connection with electricity supply
emergency
(1) The Minister may, by notice in writing given to a person (referred to in
this Part as an
"information notice" ), require the person to provide such information as the
Minister requires for any one or more of the following purposes-- (a) to
determine whether the supply of electricity to all or any part of the State
has been, or is likely to be, disrupted to a significant degree,
(a1) to
determine whether there is, or is likely to be, a cyber security incident
affecting the supply of electricity to all or any part of the State,
(b) to
plan and prepare for the exercise of powers under this Part in the event that
the supply of electricity is disrupted to a significant degree,
(c) to
otherwise administer or enforce this Part.
(2) Without limiting the
information that an information notice may require to be provided, the
information so required may include the following-- (a) information (including
location and operational status) about electricity structures, electricity
works and other electricity infrastructure such as transmission substations,
(a1) information about 1 or more of the following-- (i) a cyber security
incident reasonably believed to affect the person,
(ii) the person's plan to
respond to cyber security incidents,
(iii) the actions the person has taken,
or intends to take, in response to a cyber security incident,
(b) information
(including location and operational status) about non-electricity
infrastructure such as gas pipelines, data storage or server facilities and
telecommunications towers,
(c) information that may be relevant to the supply
of electricity in an emergency, including information about the location and
availability of the following-- (i) coal supplies and stockpiles,
(ii) gas
and liquid fuel stocks,
(iii) water storage reserves,
(iv) any relevant
infrastructure or facilities with back-up power generation.
(3) An
information notice must specify-- (a) the manner in which the information
required by the notice is to be provided to the Minister, and
(b) a
reasonable time by which the information is to be provided.
(4) For the
avoidance of doubt, an information notice may be given whether or not the
declaration of an electricity supply emergency is in force.
(5) A person must
not-- (a) without lawful excuse fail to comply with an information notice
given to the person, or
(b) provide any information in purported compliance
with an information notice that is false or misleading in a material respect.
: Maximum penalty--2,000 penalty units in the case of a corporation or 100
penalty units in the case of an individual.
(6) An information notice may be
given to a person by any of the following methods-- (a) in the case of an
individual--by personal delivery to the person,
(b) by post to the address
specified by the person for the giving of information notices,
(c) in the
case of an individual who has not specified such an address--by post to the
residential or business address of the person last known to the Minister,
(d)
in the case of a corporation--by post to the registered office or any other
office of the corporation or by leaving it at any such office with a person
apparently over the age of 16 years,
(e) by email to an email address
specified by the person for the giving of information notices,
(f) by any
other method authorised by the regulations for the giving of
information notices.
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