Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY ACT 1994 - SECT 48D

(1) This section applies if--

(a) a customer makes a retail services application for premises to the area retail entity for the premises; and

(b) the premises is, or is proposed to be, connected to a supply network; and

(c) the customer is not a large market customer or street lighting market customer for the premises.

(2) The retail entity must provide the customer retail services applied for to the premises if--

(a) the customer is a small customer for the premises and--

(i) the entity is the financially responsible retail entity for the premises; or

(ii) the premises are not physically connected to a supply network; or

(b) the customer is a large customer or street lighting customer for the premises and--

(i) both of the following apply--

(A) the entity is the financially responsible retail entity for the premises;

(B) the customer who owned or occupied the premises immediately before the applicant was a non-market customer for the premises; or

(ii) the premises have never been physically connected to a supply network.

Note--

For retail contracts for the services and their terms, see division 3.

(3) A regulation may, for subsection (2), provide for the circumstances in which premises are, are not or have never been physically connected to a supply network.

(4) In this section--

physically connected for premises means the premises has an electrical connection between the supply network and a meter at the premises, whether or not they have been energised.

street lighting market customer, for premises, means a street lighting customer for the premises who is also a market customer for the premises.

supply network means a distribution entity's supply network.