New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAS SUPPLY (NATURAL GAS RETAIL COMPETITION) REGULATION 2001 - REG 33

33 Provision of historical billing information

(1) A supplier must, if requested to do so by a small retail customer or former small retail customer, give to the customer copies of, or information about, previous bills issued by the supplier to the customer within a reasonable time of receiving the request.

(2) The supplier must provide the copies free of charge but may charge the small retail customer for the reasonable costs of obtaining and supplying copies of a bill if:

(a) the billing period occurred more than 2 years before the request, or

(b) copies or information has been provided under this clause within the previous 12 months.

(3) The supplier may provide copies of bills, or billing information, to a person other than the small retail customer only if the customer consents in writing to the provision of the bills or billing information to the other person.

(4) For the avoidance of doubt, this clause does not prevent a supplier from providing consumption information for the purposes of customer registration, customer transfer, gas nomination, balancing and reconciliation systems or for any other purpose that the supplier is legally required to do so.