New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 25

25 Contributions to augmentation of distribution system

(1) A distribution network service provider may require a new customer to contribute towards the costs incurred or to be incurred by the distribution network service provider:

(a) in extending its distribution system, or

(b) in increasing the capacity of its distribution system,

so as to enable it to provide customer connection services to the customer.

(2) For the purpose of ensuring that previously incurred costs of the kind referred to in subsection (1) are equitably borne by customers in the same vicinity, the distribution network service provider:

(a) may require further new customers to contribute towards those costs, and

(b) may apply the whole or any part of the contributions received from those customers to the repayment of existing customers who have previously contributed towards those costs.

(3) A distribution network service provider must comply with any determination of the Tribunal in force under the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal Act 1992 relating to the proportion of contributions that may be required from customers under this section or the repayment of existing customers under this section.

(3A) It is a condition of a distribution network service provider’s licence that the distribution network service provider must comply with this section.

(4) In this section, "new customer" means a customer requiring new or additional customer connection services.