New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAS SUPPLY (NATURAL GAS RETAIL COMPETITION) REGULATION 2001 - REG 16

16 Customer councils of standard suppliers

(1) A standard supplier must appoint at least one customer council.

(2) A customer council appointed by a standard supplier is to be constituted in accordance with a charter approved by the Minister.

(3) Any such charter may also provide for other matters relating to the customer council, including the procedure of the council (including meeting intervals), funding of the council and access to information by the council.

(4) It is a condition of a standard supplier’s authorisation that the supplier must, within the time required by the Minister:

(a) prepare a charter governing the constitution and procedure of a customer council appointed by the supplier, and

(b) submit the charter for approval by the Minister.

(5) The Minister may, for the purposes of this clause, approve as a charter of a customer council the charter of a customer consultative group approved under the Electricity Supply (General) Regulation 2001 .