RURAL ELECTRIFICATION

CHAPTER 73:03
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
ESTABLISHMENT OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

    3.    Establishment of the Committee

    4.    Composition of the Committee

    5.    Objectives of the Committee

    6.    Functions of the Committee

    7.    Meetings of the Committee

    8.    Remuneration and expenses of the Committee

    9.    Committee may co-opt advisors

    10.    Committee to be accountable to the Minister

    11.    Secretariat and staff of the Committee

PART III
ESTABLISHMENT OF MALAWI RURAL ELECTRIFICATION FUND

    12.    Establishment of the Fund

    13.    Purpose of the Fund

    14.    Advances to the Fund

    15.    Holdings of the Fund

    16.    Surplus funds to be invested

    17.    Disbursements from the Fund

    18.    Credit guarantees

    19.    Appointment of Credit Finance Manager

    20.    Grant and subsidy agreements

PART IV
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

    21.    Books of accounts

    22.    Annual report

PART V
REGULATION OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION

    23.    Application of Cap. 73:01 and Cap. 73:02

    24.    Rural electrification activities to be licensed

    25.    Tariffs

    26.    Safety by-laws

    27.    Concession agreements

    28.    Concession management fee

    29.    Duration of concession agreement

    30.    Implied terms and conditions in concession agreement

    31.    Solar home system agreements

    32.    Ownership of lines and equipment

    33.    Grid power coming to off-grid system

PART VI
MANAGEMENT OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ACTIVITIES

    34.    Annual rural electrification programme

    35.    Priority listing of projects

    36.    Promotion of rural electrification

    37.    Committee to monitor rural electrification

    38.    Reports of rural electrification

PART VII
MISCELLANEOUS

    39.    Offences

    40.    Penalties

    41.    Regulations

21 of 2004
G.N. 38/2007

    An Act to make provision for the promotion, funding, management and regulation of rural electrification; and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Rural Electrification Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “Authority” means the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority established under section 3 of the Energy Regulation Act;

    “beneficiary” means a person who procures a credit guarantee under section 18;

    “candidate site” means a site included in the rural electrification programme;

    “Committee” means the Rural Electrification Management Committee established under section 3;

    “Concedante” means the Department of Energy Affairs and any other entity or body as the Minister may designate by notice published in the Gazette;

    “Concessionaire” means a person who has entered into concession agreement to install, operate or maintain a rural electrification installation on behalf and as agent of a Concedante;

    “concession agreement” means a concession agreement concluded between a Concedante and a Concessionaire whereby the Concessionaire agrees to construct, install, operate or maintain a rural electrification installation on behalf and as an agent of the Concedante in accordance with section 27;

    “concession area” means an area demarcated in the concession agreement over which a Concessionaire is granted exclusive right to construct, install, operate or maintain a rural electrification installation on behalf of a Concedante;

    “Credit Finance Manager” means the Credit Finance Manager appointed under section 19;

    “Fund” means the Malawi Rural Electrification Fund established under section 12;

    “grant and subsidy agreement” means the agreement entered into between the Concedante and the Concessionaire for purposes of channelling funds from the Fund to the Concessionaire for rural electrification and m accordance with section 2;

    “grid extension rural electrification” means rural electrification installation that is connected to the interconnected system;

    “interconnected system” means the high voltage national electricity system of 66 KV and above, or as may be prescribed by notice in the Gazette, including related substations and associated equipment and generation stations to which they are connected and any distribution system connected thereto;

    “Malawi Bureau of Standards” means the Malawi Bureau of Standards established under the Malawi Bureau of Standards Act;

    “management fee” means the fee payable by a Concessionaire to a Concedante in accordance with section 28;

    “micro hydropower station” means a hydropower station whose installed generation capacity is not less than 2 KW, but is less than 100 KW;

    “mini hydropower station” is a hydropower station whose installed generation capacity is not less than 100 KW, but is less than 500 KW;

    “off-grid rural electrification” means rural electrification installation that is not connected to the interconnected system;

    “public institutions” includes Government schools, hospitals, clinics, health centres, police stations and other Government offices and institutions;

    “renewable energy resources” means solar home system, micro, mini and small hydro-electric power stations, biomas, biogas, wind, and other thermal electricity generation systems and technologies;

    “rural…