Transmission system defined

1  For the purposes of the Transmission Corporation Act, "transmission system" means those assets and rights that are owned by, or are held under contract by, the authority and that are or may be used in connection with or that otherwise relate to the transmission of electrical energy including, without limitation, the following:

(a) all lines, including underground and underwater cables, of voltage class 60 kV and above that transmit electrical energy from a generation facility step-up transformer to a substation step-down transformer, together with

(i)  all towers, poles, transformers, equipment, fixtures and switching station and substation facilities that are or may be used in connection with or that otherwise relate to that transmission, and

(ii)  each substation step-down transformer to which the electrical energy is transmitted and all associated equipment to the substation boundary;

(b) control centres, including control facilities for distribution operations and generation dispatch, and all computer hardware and software associated with those control centres;

(c) telecommunication facilities used for the operation, protection or control of switching stations, substation facilities, control centres or other components of the transmission system;

(d) rights-of-way, permits, licences and agreements;

(e) all rights to provide transmission service.