Conduct Regulation

The Commission is assigned a variety of roles when it comes to setting, approving and enforcing codes and rules aimed at ensuring appropriate types of behaviour and conduct by licensed or regulated entities in the Territory’s electricity industry.

Possible Review of Certain Regulatory Instruments

The Commission has taken an in-principle decision to - over the next year or so - revamp the NT electricity ring-fencing code and develop some contestable pricing guidelines, notwithstanding regulatory policy developments that may impact on the NT's electricity market over the same period.

In August 2007, the Commission released an Issues Paper setting out the Commission's reasoning for this preferred course of action, in order to obtain stakeholder feedback. The Commission advised that it would take views received into account before deciding whether or how to proceed.

• Issues Paper - Possible Review of Certain Regulatory Instruments

Submissions were received from four interested parties concerning the issues raised in this Paper.

• Regulatory Instruments Issues paper - Power and Water submission

• Regulatory Instruments Issues paper - NT Treasury submission

• Regulatory Instruments Issues paper - NT Major Energy Users Group submission

• Regulatory Instruments Issues paper - Private Individual submission

Following consideration of submissions from interested parties, the Commission confirms its earlier in-principle decision to revamp the NT electricity ring-fencing code. It has however decided to await developments before proceeding with the making of any contestable pricing guidelines.

The Commission’s reasoning for these decisions, and its proposed next steps is set out in more detail in the Response Paper.

• Response Paper – Possible Review of Certain Regulatory Instruments