Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY STANDARDS AND SYSTEM SAFETY) REGULATIONS 2001 - REG 9

9 .         Maximum error for revenue meters

        (1)         A network operator must prepare and implement a metering management plan (the plan ) expressed in mandatory terms to ensure that a meter registers within the margin of error of the correct registration referred to in section 41(4) of the Act.

        (2)         The plan must —

            (a)         provide for the systematic sampling and testing of in‑service meters and meters taken out of service to enable the network operator to determine whether particular types or models of meters exceed the margin for error referred to in subregulation (1); and

            (b)         set out the technical, investigative, reporting, remedial action, and administrative practices to be adopted by the network operator.

        (3)         A network operator must submit a plan to the Director for approval within 6 months of commencement and biennially after commencement.

        (4)         The Director may approve a plan or, if the Director considers that a plan submitted to the Director for approval is inadequate, the Director may direct the network operator to amend the plan before it is implemented.

        (5)         If the Director directs that a plan be amended, the network operator must submit a plan amended in accordance with the Director’s direction to the Director not more that 20 working days after the direction was given to the operator.

        (6)         If not more than 12 months after commencement or after the date of a biennial review the Director has not approved a network operator’s plan, the Director may, after consulting the network operator, prepare a plan and that plan is to be taken to be a plan approved under subregulation (4).

        (7)         A network operator must comply with the requirements of a plan approved by or prepared under subregulation (6) by the Director.

        (8)         After 30 June and before 1 September in each year, a network operator must give to the Director a report on the extent to which the operator has complied with the plan during the 12 months preceding that date.

        (9)         The Director may, by notice in writing, exempt from inclusion in a plan meters of a type specified in the notice or meters relating to electricity supplied to consumers or classes of consumers specified in the notice.