Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electricity Industry Act 2000 - SECT 40E

Regulation of pre-payment meters

40E. Regulation of pre-payment meters



(1) The Governor in Council may by Order published in the Government Gazette
prohibit or regulate the implementation by a licensee of a pre-payment meter
scheme in respect of the licensee's small retail customers.

(2) An Order under subsection (1) regulating the implementation of a
pre-payment meter scheme may specify terms and conditions applying to that
scheme.

(3) An Order under subsection (1) has effect from the date specified in the
Order.

(4) Sections 53 and 54 of the Essential Services Commission Act 2001 apply to
an Order under subsection (1) as if the Order were a determination made by the
Commission under that Act.

(5) This section applies despite anything to the contrary in any terms and
conditions that form part or are deemed by this Act to form part of the
contract between a licensee and a small retail customer.

(6) The Minister must cause a copy of each Variation Order to be laid before
each House of Parliament within 6 sitting days of that House following the
making of the Order.

(7) A Variation Order is subject to disallowance by a House of Parliament, and
sections 23, 24 and 25 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994 apply as if the
Variation Order were a statutory rule within the meaning of that Act.

(8) In this section-

pre-payment meter means a meter that allows electricity to be sold or supplied
under an arrangement that allows the customers to make full payment for the
electricity before it is consumed; Variation Order means an Order made in
substitution for or amending or revoking an Order made under subsection (1).

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