New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 39

39 Procedure for making standard form customer supply contracts

(1) It is a condition of a licence held by a standard retail supplier that the standard retail supplier must prepare a standard form customer supply contract to establish the conditions on which it will supply electricity to the premises of small retail customers who elect to be supplied with electricity under standard form customer supply contracts.

(2) It is a condition of a licence held by a standard retail supplier that the standard retail supplier must notify any relevant customer consultative group, and must have due regard to its comments, before completing its preparation of a standard form customer supply contract.

(3) Different forms of standard form customer supply contracts may be prepared for different classes of small retail customers.

(4) Notice of the terms of a standard form customer supply contract must be published in a newspaper circulating throughout the State or in a newspaper circulating throughout the relevant supply district.

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

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

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

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