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ELECTRICITY REGULATION ACT: AMENDMENT BILL’S EXPLANATORY SUMMARY GAZETTED
- 19 April 2023
- Minerals & Energy
- SA Legal Academy
Please note: The Parliamentary Monitoring Group has posted the 2022 draft Bill on its website. It is not clear if this is the version certified for tabling in Parliament, or if Cabinet approved a revised version. This is bearing in mind that a draft Bill was released in March 2022 for public comment.
The Department of Mineral Resources & Energy has gazetted an explanatory summary of the Electricity Regulation Amendment Bill approved by Cabinet last week for tabling in Parliament. Informed by input on a draft Bill released in February 2022 for public comment, the version to be introduced in Parliament is not yet available.
An explanatory summary is simply a pre-tabling parliamentary procedural requirement, and in this case, comprises a list of the amendments proposed. These also featured in a media statement on the Cabinet meeting at which the Bill was approved.
According to both documents, once in force the new legislation will:
- strengthen the role of the National Energy Regulator of South Africa
- strengthen provisions in the Act for licensable and exempted activities
- provide for the transitional measures required in creating a ‘transmission system operator’, and
- define its functions, which will include:
- establishing a multi-market electricity trading platform, and
- facilitating ‘access to the transmission network on a non-discriminatory basis’.
Please click the links below for more information:
- explanatory summary
- Cabinet media statement
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch