New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 43EF

43EF Provision of information, documents and evidence

(1) For the purposes of an investigation and report, the Chairperson of the Tribunal may, by notice in writing served on an officer of a standard retail supplier or any other person, require the officer or person to do any one or more of the following:

(a) to send to the Tribunal, on or before a day specified in the notice, a statement setting out such information as is so specified,

(b) to send to the Tribunal, on or before a day specified in the notice, such documents as are so specified,

(c) to attend a meeting or hearing of the Tribunal to give evidence.

(2) If documents are given to the Tribunal under this section, the Tribunal:

(a) may take possession of, and make copies of or take extracts from, the documents, and

(b) may keep possession of the documents for such period as is necessary for the purposes of the investigation to which they relate, and

(c) during that period must permit them to be inspected at all reasonable times by persons who would be entitled to inspect them if they were not in the possession of the Tribunal.

(3) It is a condition of a licence held by a standard retail supplier that the standard retail supplier must comply with a requirement made by the Tribunal under this section.