Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) Subject to these Regulations, a contestable customer is a customer whose annual consumption level for a single site has by the date specified in column 1 of the Schedule reached the minimum consumption level specified opposite in column 2.
(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), a customer's annual consumption level is measured by:
(a) the customer's actual total consumption at a single site during any consumption period; or
(b) the customer's estimated consumption during a future consumption period at a single site if the customer either:
(i) did not consume electricity at the site before 1 July 1998; or
(ii) the customer's business premises at the site was expanded after 1 July 1998 and the expansion causes the estimated consumption to exceed the minimum consumption level.
(3) An electricity entity that is a customer is a contestable customer regardless of its annual consumption level.
(4) From 1 April 2010 all customers are contestable customers.