New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GAS SUPPLY ACT 1996 - SECT 27A

27A Gas pricing orders generally

(1) A gas pricing order:

(a) may fix tariffs, fees, charges and other payments, or the methodology by which tariffs, fees, charges and other payments are to be calculated, either generally or in relation to any specified class of small retail customers, and

(b) may prohibit the imposition of any specified fees, charges or other payments, or any class of fees, charges or other payments for any specified service or class of services, provided to small retail customers either generally or in relation to any specified class of small retail customers.

(2) A gas pricing order takes effect on the date on which it is published in the Gazette or on such later date as may be specified in the order in that regard, and continues to have effect until it is superseded by a further gas pricing order.

(3) At any time after the expiry of 12 months from the date on which the current gas pricing order is published in the Gazette, an authorised supplier may apply to the Tribunal for a new gas pricing order on the basis that changes in circumstances (such as general inflationary trends) mean that the current gas pricing order is out of date.

(4) It is a condition of a standard supplier’s authorisation that the supplier, in imposing tariffs, fees, charges and other payments on a small retail customer in relation to the supply of natural gas under a standard form customer supply contract, must do so in accordance with any relevant gas pricing order.

(5) Section 42 of the Interpretation Act 1987 applies to and in respect of a gas pricing order in the same way as it applies to and in respect of a statutory rule within the meaning of that Act.