New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAS SUPPLY (NATURAL GAS RETAIL COMPETITION) REGULATION 2001 - REG 55

55 Terms of supply

(1) A supplier that becomes aware that gas is being supplied to a new occupant must supply gas under the new occupant supply arrangement at the lowest of the following:

(a) the charges that applied in respect of gas supplied to the premises immediately before the commencement of the arrangement,

(b) any applicable published charges in force immediately before that commencement or, if there are no published charges in force, the amount that the standard supplier in whose supply district the premises are located would have charged under a standard form customer supply contract for that supply during that period.

(2) A supplier must not require any security from a person supplied with gas under a new occupant supply arrangement other than a security of a kind that could have been required of a customer for the payment of any charge with respect to the supply of gas under the customer supply contract last in force with respect to the premises before the commencement of the arrangement.

(3) Clause 36 applies to or in respect of a new occupant supply arrangement in the same way that it applies to or in respect of a customer supply contract.

(4) A supplier that contravenes this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(5) In this clause:
"published charges" means charges published in a newspaper circulating generally in the supply district in which the relevant premises are situated (whether or not the supplier is the standard supplier), being charges applying generally to the supply of gas to small retail customers.