Government Notices — Other

Ontario Energy Board

Notice of Amendments to the Distribution System Code

Amendments made and came into force on December 23, 2024:

1. Section 1.7 is amended by inserting the following sentence at the end of the section:

“The amendments to section 3.2 and Appendix B made by the Board on December 23, 2024 come into force on December 23, 2024.”

2. Section 3.2.23 and 3.2.24(b) of the Distribution System Code are amended by replacing the phrase “five-year customer connection horizon” with the phrase “customer connection horizon determined in accordance with Appendix B”.
3. Section 3.2.27 of the Distribution System Code is amended by:
   1. replacing the phrase “five-year customer connection horizon” with the phrase “customer connection horizon determined in accordance with Appendix B”; and
   2. replacing the phrase “for a period of up to five years” in paragraph (a) with the phrase “for the period of the customer connection horizon determined in accordance with Appendix B”.
4. Sections 3.2.27B and 3.2.27D of the Distribution System Code are amended by replacing the phrase “as defined in” with the phrase “determined in accordance with”.
5. Subject to the section titled “Transition to New Connection Horizon and Revenue Horizon Rules” below, paragraph (a) under the heading “Specific Parameters/Assumptions” in Part B.1 of Appendix B to the Distribution System Code is deleted and replaced with the following:
   1. A customer connection horizon determined in accordance with the rules set out under “Customer Connection Horizon” below.
6. Subject to the section titled “Transition to New Connection Horizon and Revenue Horizon Rules” below, paragraph (b) under the heading “Specific Parameters/Assumptions” in Part B.1 of Appendix B to the Distribution System Code is deleted and replaced with the following:
   2. A customer revenue horizon determined in accordance with the rules set out under “Customer Revenue Horizon” below.
7. Subject to the section titled “Transition to New Connection Horizon and Revenue Horizon Rules” below, the text of the footnote associated with paragraph (d) under the heading “Specific Parameters/Assumptions” in Part B.1 of Appendix B to the Distribution System Code is amended by deleting the words “five year”.
8. Subject to the section titled “Transition to New Connection Horizon and Revenue Horizon Rules” below, Part B.1 of Appendix B to the Distribution System Code is amended by adding the following immediately after paragraph (d) under the heading “Specific Parameters/Assumptions”:

Rules for Determining the Customer Connection Horizon and the Customer Revenue Horizon

In this section:

“housing development”

means a project to construct multiple residential accommodations on a piece of land that will be divided into multiple parcels and offered for sale, and that will be comprised predominantly of residential accommodations but may also include public buildings, industrial and commercial buildings or space appropriate for such buildings;

“qualifying housing development”

means a housing development that meets the following criteria:

1. the developer for the housing development has requested a customer connection horizon that exceeds five (5) years;
2. the connection of the last residential customer in the housing development is forecast to occur more than five (5) years from the date of energization of the facilities;
3. the developer has provided the distributor with:
   1. an approved plan of subdivision for the housing development; and
   2. evidence that the developer owns the land on which the housing development will be built or has written authorization to build the housing development on that land from the landowner; and
4. an initial offer to connect the housing development had not been accepted by the developer on or before November 18, 2024.

Customer Connection Horizon

1. The customer connection horizon begins on the energization date of the facilities.
2. Subject to paragraph (c), the customer connection horizon for a qualifying housing development shall be based on the date on which the last residential customer is forecasted to connect to the expansion, provided that the customer connection horizon shall not exceed fifteen (15) years.
3. Where an expansion is being constructed to connect a qualifying housing development and one or more other customers, the customer connection horizon for all such customers shall be the longest customer connection horizon applicable to any one of them.
4. In all other cases, the customer connection horizon is five (5) years. A distributor may extend the customer connection horizon in appropriate cases for up to 15 years, in which case the distributor will provide the Board with an explanation for the extension.

Customer Revenue Horizon^{footnote 2[2]}

1. The maximum customer revenue horizon for a non-residential connection is twenty-five (25) years, calculated from the forecast in-service date of the first new customer connection.
2. Subject to paragraph (c), the customer revenue horizon is forty (40) years for the connection of any of the following:
   1. A residential customer, calculated from the forecast in-service date of the new customer connection;
   2. A property as defined in the Condominium Act, a residential complex as defined in the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 or 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 , whether bulk metered or suite metered (as defined in the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010), calculated from the forecast in-service date of the new building connection; and
   3. A housing development, calculated from the forecast in-service date of the first residential customer connection.
3. Where an initial offer to connect was accepted by the developer or other customer on or before November 18, 2024, the customer revenue horizon set out in paragraph (b) does not apply and the maximum customer revenue horizon is twenty-five (25) years, calculated from the forecast in-service date of the first new customer connection.

9. Part B.1 of Appendix B to the Distribution System Code is amended by adding the following immediately after the new section titled “Rules for Determining the Customer Connection Horizon and the Customer Revenue Horizon”:

Transition to new Connection and Revenue Horizon Rules

Despite the coming into force of amendments to Part B.1 of Appendix B to the Distribution System Code on December 23, 2024, a distributor may continue to apply the provisions of Part B.1 as they existed immediately prior to that date in determining the connection or revenue horizon until and including March 2, 2025.

During this transition period, a distributor shall consistently apply either the provisions as they existed immediately before December 23, 2024 or the provisions as they were amended effective December 23, 2024.

10. Appendix B of the Distribution System Code is amended as follows:
    • The phrase “Customer Connection Horizon” wherever it appears other than in a title is replaced with the phrase “customer connection horizon”;
    • The phrase “Customer Revenue Horizon” wherever it appears other than in a title is replaced with the phrase “customer revenue horizon”;
    • The letter “d” is deleted from the end of the word “overheadsd” in item (b) under the heading “Net Present Value (“NPV”) in Part B.2; and
    • The phrase “Annual Municipal Tax B” in item (b) under the heading “Net Present Value (“NPV”) in Part B.2 is replaced with the phrase “Annual Municipal Tax - ”.

(158-G005)

Ontario Securities Commission

OSC Rule 44-503 exemption from certain prospectus requirements for well-known seasoned issuers

On July 30, 2024, OSC Rule 44-503 Exemption from Certain Prospectus Requirements for Well-known Seasoned Issuers came into force under the Securities Act.

The full text of the rule is available in the Ontario Securities Commission’s Bulletin starting at (2024), 47 OSCB 7337 and on the Commission’s website at www.osc.ca.

(158-G006)

Marriage Act

certificate of permanent registration as a person authorized to solemnize marriage in Ontario have been issued to the following:

December 23, 2024 to December 29, 2024

Re-Registrations

certificate of cancellation of registration as a person authorized to solemnize marriage in Ontario have been issued to the following:

December 23, 2024 to December 29, 2024

Sirad Mohamoud
Deputy Registrar General

(158-G007)

certificate of cancellation of registration as a person authorized to solemnize marriage in Ontario have been issued to the following:

December 30, 2024 to January 05, 2025

Sirad Mohamoud
Deputy Registrar General

(158-G008)