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Volume 61, No. 14

160/2018

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 17, 2018

B.C. Reg. 160/2018 , deposited July 16, 2018, under the UTILITIES COMMISSION ACT [section 22]. Ministerial Order M277/2018, dated July 13, 2018.

I, Michelle Mungall, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, order that

the Transmission Upgrade Exemption Regulation, B.C. Reg. 140/2013, is amended as set

out in the attached Schedule.

— M. MUNGALL, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources .

Schedule

Section 1 of the Transmission Upgrade Exemption Regulation, B.C. Reg. 140/2013,

is repealed and the following substituted:

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

“Act” means the Utilities Commission Act ;

“LNG facility” means a facility that liquefies natural gas.

Section 2 is amended by renumbering the

section as

section 2 (1) and by adding

the following subsections:

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the authority is exempt from

Part 3 of the Act

in respect of the construction or operation of a plant or system, or an upgrade or

extension of either, to provide service for the following:

(

a) an LNG facility in the vicinity of the District of Kitimat;

(

b) a facility necessary for the construction of an LNG facility in the vicinity

of the District of Kitimat.

(3) The exemptions under subsection (2) do not apply in respect of a plant, system,

upgrade or extension that, on the date the authority decides to construct the plant,

system, upgrade or extension, cannot reasonably be expected to come into service before

October 1, 2025.

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit any of the exemptions under subsection (1).

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