Clause 16

This section applies to a person who —

is an electricity licensee or is exempted under section 8; and

owns, or manages or controls, a relevant installation.(2) A person must not, without the prior approval of the Authority, use or allow the use of the relevant installation or any part of the relevant installation (including following any modification, replacement or disposal of any part of the relevant installation) other than as or as part of such relevant installation.(3) Regulations made under section 103 may exclude any of the following from the application of this section:

any electricity licensee or person exempted under section 8;

any relevant installation or any part of any relevant installation;

any use of any relevant installation or part of any relevant installation (including following any modification, replacement or disposal of any part of the relevant installation), generally or in prescribed circumstances.(4) A person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1 million and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.(5) In this section, “relevant installation” means any of the following:

a generating station;

a generating unit;

a transmission system;

an energy storage system (including where the system is not part of a generating station, generating unit or transmission system).”.