New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (GENERAL) REGULATION 2001 - REG 62

62 Terms and conditions applying to small retail customers

(1) A retailer of last resort, who is also a standard retail supplier, must supply a transferred customer who is a small retail customer whose premises are located in the supplier’s supply district with electricity under the standard form supply contract.

(2) A retailer of last resort, who is also a standard retail supplier, must supply a transferred customer who is a small retail customer whose premises are not located in the supplier’s supply district with electricity under the standard form supply contract that is applicable to the supply district in which the premises are located.

(3) A retailer of last resort who is not a standard retail supplier must supply a transferred customer who is a small retail customer with electricity on the same terms and conditions as apply to small retail customers under the standard form supply contract that is applicable to the supply district in which the customer’s premises are located.

(4) A small retail customer transferred to a retailer of last resort is taken:

(a) to have elected to be transferred under an electricity supply arrangement on the terms and conditions set out in this clause, and

(b) if the retailer of last resort is a standard retail supplier, to have made an election under section 34 (8) of the Act, in accordance with this Regulation, being an election that took effect on the transfer date.

(5) A retailer of last resort may require a transferred customer to pay a last resort supply fee not exceeding $50.

Note: Under section 33B (4) of the Act, the Minister may vary the supply district of a standard retail supplier.