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Prescribed Projects Regulations

made under

Section 118 of the

Public Utilities Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 380

O.I.C. 2024-401 (effective October 24, 2024), N.S. Reg. 234/2024

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Citation

Definitions

Prescribed project under

Section 21B of Act

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Prescribed Projects Regulations .

Definitions

2 In these regulations,

“Act” means the Public Utilities Act .

Prescribed project under

Section 21B of Act

(1) The NS-NB Reliability Intertie Project is prescribed as a project under

Section 21B

of the Act.

(2) The project includes all of the following:

(

a) designing, developing, engineering, procuring, constructing, owning,

operating and maintaining a new 345 kV transmission line, and the

associated station upgrades, which will traverse from Onslow, Nova Scotia,

to the New Brunswick border, and includes, without limitation, all

associated works, activities, infrastructure and rights of way;

(

b) funding the construction of and, in co-operation with New Brunswick

Power Corporation, designing, developing, engineering and procuring a new

345 kV transmission line, and the associated station upgrades, that New

Brunswick Power Corporation will own, operate and maintain at no

additional cost to Nova Scotia Power Incorporated and which will traverse

from the New Brunswick border to Salisbury, New Brunswick, and

includes, without limitation, all associated works, activities, infrastructure

and rights of way.

(3) Nova Scotia Power Incorporated is authorized to enter into an ownership

arrangement for the prescribed project with the Canada Infrastructure Bank through

which the Canada Infrastructure Bank may partially own and/or invest in the

ownership arrangement.

(4) In determining an ownership arrangement’s revenue requirement, the Energy

Board must consider all costs, charges and fees incurred by the ownership

arrangement in connection with the prescribed project.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Prescribed Projects Regulations

N.S. Reg.

234/2024

Public Utilities Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Prescribed Projects Regulations made

under the Public Utilities Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

234/2024

Oct 24, 2024

date specified

Nov 15, 2024

The following regulations are not

yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

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Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.