O. Reg. 41/04: DEFINITIONS AND EXEMPTIONS

 

ontario regulation 41/04

made under the

Ontario Energy Board act, 1998

Made: February 25, 2004
Filed: March 1, 2004
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: March 20, 2004

Amending O. Reg. 161/99

(Definitions and Exemptions)

1. Section 1 of Ontario Regulation 161/99 is amended by adding the following subsection:

(2) The following consumers are prescribed for the purposes of clause (f) of the definition of “designated consumer” in section 56 of the Act:

1. A consumer who has a demand of 50 kilowatts or less.

2. A consumer who has an account with a distributor, if the account relates to,

i. a dwelling,

ii. a property as defined in the Condominium Act, 1998,

iii. a residential complex as defined in the Tenant Protection Act, 1997, or

iv. a property that includes one or more dwellings and that is owned or leased by a co-operative as defined in the Co-operative Corporations Act.

3. McMichael Canadian Art Foundation.

4. Ontario Heritage Foundation.

5. The Centennial Centre of Science and Technology.

6. A consumer who has an account with a distributor, if the account relates to only one of the following:

i. A hospital within the meaning of the Community Psychiatric Hospitals Act.

ii. A psychiatric facility within the meaning of the Mental Health Act.

iii. A cancer centre established by Cancer Care Ontario under the Cancer Act.

iv. A commercially operated residence for seniors or retired persons, or any other similar commercially operated residence, where attainment of a mature age is a factor in being accepted for occupancy.

v. A nursing station, health centre, clinic or other facility that receives funding through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Underserviced Area Program.

vi. A facility owned or leased by a person who receives funding from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for one or more of the following health care support services that are provided to or are available to residents of the facility:

A. A residential treatment services program.

B. A withdrawal management services program.

C. A dedicated supportive housing project.

vii. An approved charitable institution within the meaning of the Charitable Institutions Act.

viii. A home for special care within the meaning of the Homes for Special Care Act.

ix. A community care access corporation within the meaning of the Community Care Access Corporations Act, 2001.

x. Cancer Care Ontario.

xi. A service provider within the meaning of the Long-Term Care Act, 1994.

xii. A board of health within the meaning of the Health Protection and Promotion Act.

xiii. A community health centre within the meaning of Ontario Regulation 396/93 under the Pay Equity Act.

xiv. A comprehensive health organization within the meaning of Ontario Regulation 396/93 under the Pay Equity Act.

xv. A district health council established under the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Act.

xvi. A facility owned by Canadian Blood Services.

xvii. An independent health facility operated under the authority of a licence issued under the Independent Health Facilities Act.

xviii. An organization that receives funding under the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Act.

xvix. A place where emergency hostel services are provided under the Ontario Works Act, 1997.

xx. A domiciliary hostel that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act.

xxi. A place where a resource centre program that receives funding under the Day Nurseries Act is provided.

xxii. A place where a recreational program that receives funding under the Day Nurseries Act is provided.

xxiii. A facility designated by the regulations under the Developmental Services Act as a facility to which that Act applies, other than a facility listed in Schedule 1 to Regulation 272 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 made under that Act.

xxiv. A residence licensed as a children’s residence under the Child and Family Services Act.

xxv. A facility where child development services, child treatment services, child welfare services, community support services or young offenders services, within the meaning of the Child and Family Services Act, are provided.

xxvi. A facility where child and family intervention services, within the meaning of Regulation 70 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 made under the Child and Family Services Act, are provided.

xxvii. A place where an emergency shelter service or homelessness prevention program that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act is provided.

xxviii. A day nursery as defined in the Day Nurseries Act.

xxix. A sheltered workshop that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act or the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act.

xxx. A place where a supported employment program that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act or the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act is provided.

xxxi. A place where an adults’ community support service that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act is provided.

xxxii. A place where an employment preparation, training and job placement program that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act is provided.

xxxiii. A place where a violence against women program that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act is provided.

xxxiv. A place where an aboriginal healing and wellness program that receives funding under the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy is provided.

xxxv. An Ontario Early Years Centre or a satellite program of an Ontario Early Years Centre that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act.

xxxvi. A district social services administration board established under the District Social Services Administration Boards Act.

xxxvii. A place where an employment supports program that receives funding under the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997 is provided.

xxxviii. A place where Rehabilitation Services for the Disabled that receive funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act are provided.

xxxix. A place where interpreter services programs or intervenor services programs that receive funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act are provided.

xl. A place where a discharge planning for ex-offenders program that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act is provided.

7. A consumer who annually uses at least 150,000 but not more than 250,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and who is not otherwise eligible for treatment as a designated consumer under the Act or a regulation made under the Act.

8. A consumer who has an account with a distributor if,

i. the consumer carries on a farming business within the meaning of the Farm Registration and Farm Organizations Funding Act, 1993,

ii. as of March 31, 2003, either the consumer held a valid registration number assigned under the Farm Registration and Farm Organizations Funding Act, 1993 or the consumer’s obligation to file a farming business registration form was waived pursuant to an order made under subsection 22 (6) of that Act, and

iii. the consumer is not otherwise eligible for treatment as a designated consumer under any provision of the Act or of a regulation made under the Act with respect to its farming business. 

2. Clause 4.0.1 (1) (a) of the Regulation is amended by adding the following paragraph:

10. A mine as defined in the Mining Act;

3. (1) Subsection 4.0.2 (1) of the Regulation is amended by striking out the portion before clause (a) and substituting the following:

(1) Clause 57 (b) of the Act and the other provisions of the Act listed in subsection (2) do not apply to a transmitter that transmits electricity for a price, if any, that is no greater than that required to recover all reasonable costs if,

. . . . .

(2) Clauses 4.0.2 (1) (a) and (b) of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:

(a) the transmitter owns or operates a transmission system that is entirely or partially located on land on which one or more of the types of buildings or facilities described in subsection 4.0.1 (1) is also located;

(b) the transmission system owned or operated by the transmitter was in existence on January 1, 2002 and, since that day has been used, if at all, for the sole purpose of permitting another person that holds a licence authorizing the other person to own or operate a transmission system to convey electricity from the IMO-controlled grid to consumers;

(3) Subclause 4.0.2 (1) (c) (ii) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(ii) the purpose described in clause (b), if the transmission system owned or operated by the transmitter was in existence on January 1, 2002 and, since that day, has been used, if at all, for the sole purpose described in clause (b).

(4) Subclause 4.0.2 (1) (d) (iii) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(iii) the purpose described in clause (b), if the transmission system owned or operated by the transmitter was in existence on January 1, 2002 and, since that day has been used, if at all, solely for the purposes described in clause (e); or

(5) Subclause 4.0.2 (1) (e) (iii) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(iii) the purpose described in clause (b), if the transmission system owned or operated by the transmitter was in existence on January 1, 2002 and, since that day, has been used, if at all, for the sole purpose described in clause (b). 

(6) Section 4.0.2 of the Regulation is amended by adding the following subsection:

(1.1) Clauses (1) (d) and (e) apply even if the transmitter that is a generator incidentally transmits electricity to a consumer that was connected on March 1, 2004 to the transmission system that the transmitter owns or operates.