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

Final Stages

The House of Assembly agreed to amendments Nos 1, 3, 5 to 15 made by the Legislative Council without any amendment; agreed to amendment No. 2 with an amendment and a consequential amendment as indicated in the annexed schedule; and insisted on its disagreement to amendments Nos 4 and 16 as indicated in the following schedule:

No. 1. 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 satisfied other criteria (if any) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition;

No. 2. Clause 4, page 4, line 18—Delete: 2013

and substitute:

2028

Schedule of the amendment and consequential amendment made by the House of Assembly to amendment number 2 of the Legislative Council

Legislative Council's amendment—

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

Qualifying customer means—

(a) a domestic customer; or

(b) a small business customer

House of Assembly's amendment thereto—

Clause 4, page 3, before line 1—

Definition of qualifying customer –Substitute:

qualifying customer – a small customer is a qualifying customer for the purposes of this Division;

and makes the following necessary consequential amendment:

Clause 4, page 2, lines 16-19—

Clause 3, inserted section 36AC—delete the definition of domestic customer.

At 21:40 the council adjourned until 14 February 2008 at 14:15.