New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GAS SUPPLY (NATURAL GAS RETAIL COMPETITION) REGULATION 2001 - REG 72

72 Terms and conditions applying to small retail customers

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

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

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

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

(b) if the retailer of last resort is a standard supplier, to have made an application under section 33C (1) of the Act, in accordance with this Regulation, being an application that took effect on the transfer date.

(5) A retailer of last resort may require a transferred customer (other than a transferred customer who was, before the transfer, a customer under a standard form customer supply contract) to pay a last resort supply fee not exceeding the fee approved by the Minister after consultation with the Tribunal.