New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 15

15 Right to connection to local distribution system for all customers

(1) An application may be made to a distribution network service provider:

(a) by any person who owns or occupies premises within the distribution network service provider’s distribution district (other than a person who is entitled to the provision of customer connection services under a wholesale market access regime), or

(b) by any other person on behalf of any such person,

for the provision of customer connection services to those premises.

(2) A distribution network service provider to which such an application is made is obliged:

(a) to provide customer connection services to the applicant’s premises under the customer connection contract relevant to the applicant, or

(b) to ensure that customer connection services are so provided.

(3) The right that a person has under this section to have premises provided with customer connection services is subject to any provision of this Act or the regulations that authorises the disconnection of those premises from, or the refusal to connect those premises to, a distribution system.

(4) It is a condition of a distribution network service provider’s licence that the distribution network service provider must fulfil the obligations imposed on the distribution network service provider by this section.

(5) This section does not apply to a distribution network service provider that does not have a distribution district.