New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL ACT 1992 - SECT 11

11 Investigations and reports by Tribunal-standing reference

(1) The Tribunal is to conduct investigations and make reports to the Minister on the following matters:

(a) the determination of the pricing for a government monopoly service supplied by a government agency specified in Schedule 1,

(b) a periodic review of pricing policies in respect of government monopoly services supplied by such an agency.

(1A) Subsection (1) does not extend to such services of a government agency specified in Schedule 1 as may be excluded in that Schedule for the agency.

(2) The regulations may amend Schedule 1. An agency may not be added to Schedule 1 by the regulations unless it is a government agency.

(3) The Tribunal is to conduct investigations and make reports to the Minister on:

(a) the determination of the proportion of the costs of a distribution network service provider, as referred to in section 25 (1) of the Electricity Supply Act 1995 , that the distribution network service provider may require new customers to contribute, and

(b) the determination of the proportion of the costs of a distribution network service provider, as referred to in section 25 (2) of that Act, that the distribution network service provider may require further new customers to contribute, and

(c) the determination of the repayment, from any such contributions, to existing customers who have previously contributed to such costs, as referred to in section 25 (3) of that Act.