Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electricity Industry Act 2000 - SECT 35D

Required tariff information and licensee contact information to be published in newspaper

35D. Required tariff information and licensee contact information to be
published in newspaper



(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-

   (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);



tariff variation information means-

   (a)  in the case of a single tariff for the supply and sale of electricity
        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 is varied in accordance with section 35(3) at the same
        time in accordance with that section, the weighted tariff variation
        relating to those tariffs determined in accordance with an Order under
        section 35E.