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2013, c.7 - Electricity Act

Section 122
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Compliance monitoring and enforcement
122(1)The Board is authorized
(a) to monitor and assess compliance with approved reliability standards in accordance with the regulations, including, but not limited to, identifying actual or potential violations of the standards, and
(b) to enforce approved reliability standards in accordance with this section and the regulations, including, but not limited to, making orders or decisions in respect of actual or potential violations.
122(2)Despite any other provision of this Act or any provision of any other Act, the Board, by contract, may authorize a compliance body
(a) to carry out the responsibility referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or any part of it,
(b) to assist or advise the Board in respect of the responsibility referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or any part of it, or
(c) to carry out or exercise any power, duty, function, responsibility or authority conferred on the Board under this Act or the regulations if the power, duty, function, responsibility or authority has been prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this paragraph.
122(3)A compliance body authorized in accordance with paragraph (2)(a) or (c) to carry out or exercise powers, duties, functions, responsibilities or authorities or an employee or agent of that compliance body has the powers of an inspector under section 134, and that section, section 135 and subsection 140(1) apply, with the necessary modifications, as though the compliance body, employee or agent were an inspector.
122(4)Subject to the regulations, the Board may, by order, require a person who has been determined by the Board to have violated an approved reliability standard to do any one or more of the following:
(a) in accordance with the regulations,
(i) to prepare and submit to the Board for approval a plan to correct the violation and to prevent its recurrence, and
(ii) to carry out the plan as approved by the Board;
(b) to pay financial penalties as provided for by the regulations;
(c) to refrain from carrying on any activities, functions or operations specified in the order;
(d) to carry out any activities, functions or operations specified in the order only in accordance with any restrictions specified in the order;
(e) to disconnect any works specified in the order from the bulk power system;
(f) to do or refrain from doing any act or thing prescribed by regulation.
122(5)Any order made by the Board under subsection (4) shall not require a person to construct new works or alter existing works in order to increase generation or transmission capacity.
122(6) If the Board requires the payment of a financial penalty under paragraph (4)(b), the penalty shall be remitted to the Minister of Finance and Treasury Board to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
122(7)Any measures or penalties required by an order under subsection (4) shall bear a reasonable relationship to the seriousness of the violation in respect of which the order is made.
122(8)In making an order under subsection (4), the Board shall take into consideration any efforts of the person against whom the order is made to remedy the violation in a timely manner and any other factors it considers relevant.
2019, c.29, s.46
Compliance monitoring and enforcement
122(1)The Board is authorized
(a) to monitor and assess compliance with approved reliability standards in accordance with the regulations, including, but not limited to, identifying actual or potential violations of the standards, and
(b) to enforce approved reliability standards in accordance with this section and the regulations, including, but not limited to, making orders or decisions in respect of actual or potential violations.
122(2)Despite any other provision of this Act or any provision of any other Act, the Board, by contract, may authorize a compliance body
(a) to carry out the responsibility referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or any part of it,
(b) to assist or advise the Board in respect of the responsibility referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or any part of it, or
(c) to carry out or exercise any power, duty, function, responsibility or authority conferred on the Board under this Act or the regulations if the power, duty, function, responsibility or authority has been prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this paragraph.
122(3)A compliance body authorized in accordance with paragraph (2)(a) or (c) to carry out or exercise powers, duties, functions, responsibilities or authorities or an employee or agent of that compliance body has the powers of an inspector under section 134, and that section, section 135 and subsection 140(1) apply, with the necessary modifications, as though the compliance body, employee or agent were an inspector.
122(4)Subject to the regulations, the Board may, by order, require a person who has been determined by the Board to have violated an approved reliability standard to do any one or more of the following:
(a) in accordance with the regulations,
(i) to prepare and submit to the Board for approval a plan to correct the violation and to prevent its recurrence, and
(ii) to carry out the plan as approved by the Board;
(b) to pay financial penalties as provided for by the regulations;
(c) to refrain from carrying on any activities, functions or operations specified in the order;
(d) to carry out any activities, functions or operations specified in the order only in accordance with any restrictions specified in the order;
(e) to disconnect any works specified in the order from the bulk power system;
(f) to do or refrain from doing any act or thing prescribed by regulation.
122(5)Any order made by the Board under subsection (4) shall not require a person to construct new works or alter existing works in order to increase generation or transmission capacity.
122(6) If the Board requires the payment of a financial penalty under paragraph (4)(b), the penalty shall be remitted to the Minister of Finance to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
122(7)Any measures or penalties required by an order under subsection (4) shall bear a reasonable relationship to the seriousness of the violation in respect of which the order is made.
122(8)In making an order under subsection (4), the Board shall take into consideration any efforts of the person against whom the order is made to remedy the violation in a timely manner and any other factors it considers relevant.
Compliance monitoring and enforcement
122(1)The Board is authorized
(a) to monitor and assess compliance with approved reliability standards in accordance with the regulations, including, but not limited to, identifying actual or potential violations of the standards, and
(b) to enforce approved reliability standards in accordance with this section and the regulations, including, but not limited to, making orders or decisions in respect of actual or potential violations.
122(2)Despite any other provision of this Act or any provision of any other Act, the Board, by contract, may authorize a compliance body
(a) to carry out the responsibility referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or any part of it,
(b) to assist or advise the Board in respect of the responsibility referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or any part of it, or
(c) to carry out or exercise any power, duty, function, responsibility or authority conferred on the Board under this Act or the regulations if the power, duty, function, responsibility or authority has been prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this paragraph.
122(3)A compliance body authorized in accordance with paragraph (2)(a) or (c) to carry out or exercise powers, duties, functions, responsibilities or authorities or an employee or agent of that compliance body has the powers of an inspector under section 134, and that section, section 135 and subsection 140(1) apply, with the necessary modifications, as though the compliance body, employee or agent were an inspector.
122(4)Subject to the regulations, the Board may, by order, require a person who has been determined by the Board to have violated an approved reliability standard to do any one or more of the following:
(a) in accordance with the regulations,
(i) to prepare and submit to the Board for approval a plan to correct the violation and to prevent its recurrence, and
(ii) to carry out the plan as approved by the Board;
(b) to pay financial penalties as provided for by the regulations;
(c) to refrain from carrying on any activities, functions or operations specified in the order;
(d) to carry out any activities, functions or operations specified in the order only in accordance with any restrictions specified in the order;
(e) to disconnect any works specified in the order from the bulk power system;
(f) to do or refrain from doing any act or thing prescribed by regulation.
122(5)Any order made by the Board under subsection (4) shall not require a person to construct new works or alter existing works in order to increase generation or transmission capacity.
122(6) If the Board requires the payment of a financial penalty under paragraph (4)(b), the penalty shall be remitted to the Minister of Finance to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
122(7)Any measures or penalties required by an order under subsection (4) shall bear a reasonable relationship to the seriousness of the violation in respect of which the order is made.
122(8)In making an order under subsection (4), the Board shall take into consideration any efforts of the person against whom the order is made to remedy the violation in a timely manner and any other factors it considers relevant.