ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2000 - SECT 35D Required tariff information and licensee contact information to be published in newspaper and Government Gazette

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2000 - SECT 35D

S. 35D(1) amended by No. 49/2015 s. 8(2).

    (1)     Without limiting the generality of section 20(2) or (3) or section 21, the conditions to which a licence to sell electricity, being a licence under which electricity may be sold to domestic or small business customers, is subject, include a condition requiring the licensee to, on the required day, publish in a newspaper circulating generally throughout Victoria and in the Government Gazette—

        (a)     required tariff information; and

        (b)     the licensee's contact information.

    (2)     In this section—

"licensee's contact information" means all of the following information—

        (a)     the licensee's telephone number;

        (b)     the licensee's fax number;

        (c)     the licensee's postal address;

        (d)     the Internet address of the licensee's Internet site;

"required day" means the day the licensee varies a tariff or tariffs for the supply and sale of electricity by notice published in the Government Gazette in accordance with section 35(3);

"required tariff information" means—

        (a)     tariff variation information; and

        (b)     the date a tariff or tariffs varied in accordance with section 35(3) takes or take effect; and

        (c)     a description of the tariff or tariffs referred to in paragraph (b); and

        (d)     the main reasons for the variation of a tariff or tariffs referred to in paragraph (b);

S. 35D def. of tariff variation information amended by No. 28/2021 s. 15.

"tariff variation information" means—

        (a)     in the case of a single tariff for the supply and sale of electricity determined by a licensee under section 35(1)(a) that is varied in accordance with section 35(3), the weighted tariff variation relating to that tariff determined in accordance with an Order under section 35E;

        (b)     in the case where more than one tariff for the supply and sale of electricity determined by a licensee under section 35(1)(a) is varied in accordance with section 35(3) at the same time in accordance with section 35, the weighted tariff variation relating to those tariffs determined in accordance with an Order under section 35E.

S. 35E inserted by No. 59/2008 s. 9.