New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 21

21 Effect of standard form customer connection contracts

(1) Except to the extent to which the regulations otherwise provide, a standard form customer connection contract takes effect:

(a) on the first day on which notice of its terms is published in a newspaper circulating throughout the distribution network service provider’s distribution district, or

(b) on such later day as may be specified in the notice.

(2) The particulars to be set out in a notice under this section:

(a) must specify the date on or after which the customer connection contract is to take effect, not being a date that is earlier than the date the notice is published or served, and

(b) must include such other particulars as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) A notice under this section may be of general application or be limited in its application by reference to specified exceptions or factors.

(4) A standard form customer connection contract does not have effect in respect of any period before the date specified in the relevant notice as the date on or after which the contract is to take effect.

(5) On the day on which a customer applies to a distribution network service provider for the provision of customer connection services, the customer and the distribution network service provider are taken to have entered into an agreement for the provision of customer connection services on the conditions set out in the relevant standard form customer connection contract, and the contract is enforceable accordingly.