ELECTRICITY (FEED-IN SCHEME—RESIDENTIAL SOLAR SYSTEMS) AMENDMENT BILL

Final Stages

The Legislative Council agreed to the bill with the amendments indicated by the following schedule, to which amendments the Legislative Council desires the concurrence of the House of Assembly:

No. 1. Clause 1, page 2, line 3—Delete 'Residential'

No. 2. Clause 4, page 3, before line 1—Insert:

qualifying customer means—

(a) a domestic customer; or

(b) a small business customer;

No. 3. Clause 4, page 3, line 2—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 4. Clause 4, page 3, after line 9—Insert:

small business customer means a customer who acquires electricity primarily for the purposes of—

(a) a business—

(i) where not more than 20 persons are employed (and, for the purposes of this paragraph, the relevant number of persons will be determined by counting people who work full time in the business, or full time equivalents); and

(ii) where the business does not form part of a larger business; or

(b) a business that satisfies other criteria (if any) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition;

No. 5. Clause 4, page 3, line 18—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 6. Clause 4, page 3, line 23—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 7. Clause 4, page 3, line 24—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 8. Clause 4, page 3, lines 31 and 32—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 9. Clause 4, page 3, lines 35 and 36—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 10. Clause 4, page 3, line 37—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 11. Clause 4, page 3, line 39—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 12. Clause 4, page 3, line 41—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 13. Clause 4, page 4, line 1—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 14. Clause 4, page 4, line 4—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 15. Clause 4, page 4, line 6—Delete 'domestic customer' and substitute:

qualifying customer

No. 16. Clause 4, page 4, line 18—Delete '2013' and substitute:

2028

At 19:02 the house adjourned until Wednesday 14 November 2007 at 11:00.