New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 41

41 Effect of standard form customer supply contracts

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

(a) on the first day on which notice of its terms is published in a newspaper under section 39, or

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

(2) A standard form customer supply contract does not have any 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.

(3) On the day on which a customer applies to a standard retail supplier for the supply of electricity under a standard form customer supply contract, the customer and the retail supplier are taken to have entered into an agreement for the provision of electricity on the conditions set out in the relevant standard form customer supply contract, and the contract is enforceable accordingly.