Definitions

1   In this regulation:

"Act" means the BC Hydro Public Power Legacy and Heritage Contract Act;

"distribution system" means a distribution system owned by the authority;

"heritage resources" has the same meaning as in the Heritage Special Direction No. HC2 to the British Columbia Utilities Commission, B.C. Reg. 158/2005;

"remote community" means a community identified in the Schedule.

Service to persons in remote communities

2   To provide them with the benefits of the heritage resources, the authority must provide electricity service to persons

(a) whose premises are located within 200 metres of a distribution system in a remote community, and

(b) who apply to the authority for service and pay or agree to pay the rates established for that service under the Utilities Commission Act and the regulations made under that Act.

[am. B.C. Reg. 179/2010, s. (a).]

Utilities Commission Act

3   For greater certainty, nothing in this regulation relieves the authority of any obligation it might have to obtain a certificate referred to in section 45 of the Utilities Commission Act in relation to the provision of the service referred to in section 2 of this regulation.