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Section 2Part 1 — Introductory

Definitions

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In this Law —
"additional electricity generation" means any electricity capacity or energy that the Office solicits to be generated either in substitution for a generating station or generating unit therein in addition thereto;
"administrative determinations" includes any orders, regulations, directions, decisions, or other written determinations by which the Office establishes the legal rights and obligations of one or more licensees, but does not include any advisory guidelines;
"authorised officer" means a person authorised by the Office;
"back up electricity supply" means the provision of electricity supplies by a Generator or a T&D licensee to another person which is temporarily unable to satisfy its system demand with the generation resources normally available to it;
"Cabinet" has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Constitution;
"Capital Investment Plan" means those additions to its generation and T&D assets that a licensee intends to make, that, when added will form part of its rate base as approved by the Office;
"chairman" means chairman of the Board;
"consumer" means a person who is a customer of, and is supplied with electricity by, a T&D licensee;
"Court" means the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands;
"critical national infrastructure" means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the Islands that the incapacity or destruction of the systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters;
"destructive event" means a hurricane, flood, fire, earthquake, act of terrorism or other calamity, whether similar to the aforementioned or not;
"document" means any record, book or other information in any form including any information written, printed, stored, maintained or preserved by means of any mechanical or electronic device and includes an electronic record as defined in the Electronic Transactions Law (2003 Revision);
"electric line" means a line which is used either solely or primarily for the transport of electricity for any purpose and includes —
a support for such line, that is to say, the structure, pole, or other thing in, on, by or from which such line may be supported, carried or suspended;
apparatus connected to such line and related to the transmission and distribution of electricity; and
any wire, cable, tube, pipe or other apparatus, including its casing or coating, which surrounds or supports or is surrounded or supported by, or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, such line and related to the transmission and distribution of electricity;
"electricity" means electric current or energy or any like agency;
"Electricity Law" means the Electricity Law (2008 Revision);
"electricity service industry" means commercial provision of electricity supplies to the general public;
"electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities, whether digital, analogue or otherwise;
"fee" means the fee from time to time prescribed by and payable to the Office for any application or purpose other than for a licence;
"Financial Secretary" means the principal adviser to the Minister responsible for finance;
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"General Regulatory Principles" means the overall guidelines relating to the regulation of the electricity industry in the Islands set out in the Schedule;
"generate", in relation to electricity, means to produce electricity;
"generation assets" means all assets used and useful in the generation of electricity, including property, infrastructure (for example, prime movers, generating units, switches and switch yards, breakers, transformers, fuel delivery and storage systems), controls and other support equipment and facilities up to the specified point of interconnection with the T&D system of a T&D licensee;
"generation licence" means a licence which permits a Generator, among other things —
to generate electricity for sale to a T&D licensee for further transmission and distribution to consumers; and
to construct, reconstruct, replace or modify a generating station or any generating unit therein for the purpose of generating electricity for sale to a T&D licensee;
"generating station" means a station for the generation of electricity;
"generation solicitation process" means the process by which the Office solicits for additional electricity generation in accordance with the procedures set out in regulations made under this Law;
"Generator" means a person possessing a valid licence to generate and deliver electricity to a T&D licensee;
"interconnection" means the electrical connection of a generating station of a Generator, or of a generating unit used for self supply to the T&D system of a T&D licensee;
"Judge" means a judge of the Grand Court;
"licence" means a licence granted to a person by the Cabinet or by the Office under this Law and includes any renewal thereof or modification thereto;
"licence fee" means the initial, annual or renewal fees for a licence prescribed from time to time by, and payable to, the Office by a licensee;
"licensee" means a person to whom a licence is granted;
"Minister" means the member of Cabinet for the time being charged with responsibility for electricity generation, transmission and distribution in accordance with section 54 of the Cayman Islands Constitution Order, 2009 [UKSI 2009/1379];
"Office" means the Utility Regulation and Competition Office established under section 4 of the Utility Regulation and Competition Law (2019 Revision);
"person" includes any individual, body corporate (either aggregate or sole), partnership, entity or association, undertaking, club, society or other body of one or more persons;
"PPA" or "power purchase agreement" means an agreement made or terms and conditions agreed between a Generator and a T&D licensee approved by the Office whereby the T&D licensee contracts to purchase or acquire electricity generated by a Generator as specified in the agreement or terms and conditions;
"premises" means one or more buildings or structures, occupied or used by a person;
"public officer" has the meaning assigned to it by section 124(1) of the Cayman Islands Constitution Order, 2009 [UKSI 2009/1379];
"publish", in relation to any regulation, rule, direction, decision, accounts or notice required to be given or promulgated under this Law, means causing the regulation, rule, direction, decision, accounts or notice to be published in the Gazette and either published in electronic format on the Internet or in a newspaper circulating in the Islands;
"RCAM" or "rate cap and adjustment mechanism" means the mechanism for determining and modifying prices for electricity delivered by a T&D licensee to consumers as approved by the Office and specified in that licensee's T&D licence;
"Registrar" means the Registrar of Companies;
"renewable or alternative forms of energy" means non-fossil energy used in the generation of electricity which does not deplete the amount of that energy available in the future or for which the supply can be readily regenerated, including energy derived from wind, hydro, biomass, waste (including waste heat), bio-fuel, geothermal, fuel cells, tidal, temperature inversion or convection, solar or wave or any combination of such forms of energy;
"standby connection" means an electrical connection between the T&D system of a T&D licensee and premises for the purposes of a backup electricity supply;
"T&D" means transmission and distribution;
"T&D assets" means all the electrical transmission and distribution assets owned by the T&D licensee and used and useful in the provision of licensed transmission and distribution services, including property, rights of way, infrastructure (for example, poles, wire, switches, transformers, capacitors and substations), vehicles, equipment and controls from the specified interconnection point with a generating station and extending through to and including the revenue or title transfer meter at end-use consumer sites or other interconnection points;
"T&D code" means a set of rules adopted, prepared or adapted by a T&D licensee and approved by the Office under this Law to be observed in respect of all technical aspects including safety, relating to interconnection and connection to and operation of the transmission and distribution system operated by the T&D licensee, including the dispatch of generating units to serve the load and reserve requirements of that T&D licensee;
"T&D licence" means a licence which permits the licensee, inter alia, to purchase, transmit and distribute electricity for delivery to consumers for reward, and includes a licence to construct, reconstruct, replace or modify transmission and distribution facilities for those purposes;
"T&D system" means the T&D network of a T&D licensee for the transport of electricity from the generating station of a Generator to consumer meters and consists of structures, lines, underground conduit, conductors, transformers, relays, switchgear and associated equipment;
"term, condition or requirement" means a term or condition of a licence or a requirement imposed upon a licensee by the Office or under this Law; and
"transmission and distribution" means the transport of electricity by means of a T&D system for delivery to consumers for reward.

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