Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The purposes of
this Part are —
(a) to
provide for light regulation of access to services of covered Pilbara
networks; and
(b) to
give effect to the relevant principles of the Competition Principles Agreement
in respect of the provision of access to services of certain covered Pilbara
networks; and
(c) to
provide for the operation, management, security and reliability of the
interconnected Pilbara system and other Pilbara networks.
(2) The objective of
this Part (the Pilbara electricity objective ) is to meet the State
electricity objective in the Pilbara region.
(3) The regulations,
the Pilbara Networks Access Code and the Pilbara networks rules may provide
for the matters a person or body who performs a function under this Part is to
have regard to in determining whether the performance of the function meets
the Pilbara electricity objective.
(4) Without limiting
subsection (3), the matters referred to in that subsection may include the
following —
(a) the
contribution of the Pilbara resources industry to the State’s economy;
(b) the
nature and scale of investment in the Pilbara resources industry;
(c) the
importance to the Pilbara resources industry of a secure and reliable
electricity supply.
[Section 119 inserted: No. 9 of 2020 s. 19;
amended: No. 1 of 2024 s. 12.]