Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1997

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE 1. THIS ACT MAY BE CITED AS THE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1997.1

   2.      2.1 (1) Sections 1, 2 and  
   3.      In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—“ACTEW” means ACTEW Corporation Limited; “customer connection contract” means a standard form customer connection contract or a negotiated customer connection contract; “customer connection service” means a service that consists of—  

   PART II--NETWORK OPERATIONS

   4.      A person shall not operate a distribution system for the purpose of conveying electricity for or on behalf of retail suppliers otherwise than under the authority of an electricity distributor's licence.  
   5.      (1) The Minister may grant electricity distributors' licences for the purposes of this Act.  
   6.      (1) Application may be made to an electricity distributor—  
   7.      It is a condition of an electricity distributor's licence that the distributor shall not operate its distribution system for the purpose of conveying electricity for or on behalf of a retail supplier unless the retail supplier holds a retail supplier's licence.  
   8.      It is a condition of an electricity distributor's licence that the electricity distributor shall hold a retail supplier's licence at all times during which it holds an electricity distributor's licence.  
   9.      It is a condition of an electricity distributor's licence that the distributor shall not provide a customer connection service otherwise than under a customer connection contract.  
   10.     (1) An electricity distributor shall prepare a standard form customer connection contract to establish the conditions on which it will provide customer connection services.  
   11.     (1) A standard form customer connection contract shall make provision for—  
   12.     (1) A standard form customer connection contract takes effect—  
   13.     (1) An electricity distributor may amend a standard form customer connection contract to vary the terms on which it will provide customer connection services.  
   14.     (1) This section applies to contracts for the provision of customer connection services by an electricity distributor to a customer where the services are not to be provided in accordance with any of the distributor's standard form customer connection contracts.  
   15.     (1) This Division applies to a person who applies to an electricity distributor for the provision of customer connection services or to whom customer connection services are provided.  
   16.     (1) An electricity distributor may require a new customer to contribute towards the costs incurred, or to be incurred, by the distributor in—  
   17.     (1) An electricity distributor may require the installation of such service lines, and provision for their attachment, as it considers necessary to provide a supply of electricity to a customer.  
   18.     (1) An electricity distributor may require the installation of such service equipment, and provision for its mounting, as it considers necessary for the provision of a safe and efficient supply of electricity to a customer.  
   19.     (1) This section applies if, in the opinion of the electricity distributor, the supply of electricity required by a customer—  
   20.     (1) An electricity distributor may require the installation of such electricity meters as it considers necessary in order to ascertain the quantity of electricity supplied to a customer.  
   21.     (1) An electricity distributor may—  
   22.     (1) For the purpose of complying with any requirements imposed under this Division or under a customer connection contract, a customer may—  
   23.     An electricity distributor may attach seals to a customer's electrical installation if it considers it appropriate to do so.  

   PART III--RETAIL SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY

   24.     (1) The Minister may grant retail suppliers' licences for the purposes of this Act.  
   25.     (1) Application may be made to an electricity distributor—  
   26.     (1) It is unlawful for a retail supplier to—  
   27.     (1) It is a condition of a retail supplier's licence that the supplier shall not supply electricity to the premises of a franchise customer otherwise than—  
   28.     Subject to section 25, a retail supplier may, but is not required to, supply electricity to the premises of a non-franchise customer.  
   29.     It is a condition of a retail supplier's licence that the supplier shall not supply electricity to the premises of a retail customer otherwise than under a customer supply contract.  
   30.     (1) A retail supplier shall prepare a standard form customer supply contract to establish the conditions on which it will supply electricity to the premises of its franchise customers.  
   31.     (1) A standard form customer supply contract shall make provision for—  
   32.     (1) A standard form customer supply contract takes effect—  
   33.     (1) A retail supplier may amend a standard form customer supply contract to vary the terms on which it supplies electricity to franchise customers.  
   34.     (1) This section applies to—  

   PART IV--REVIEW OF DECISIONS

   35.     Application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of a decision of the Minister—  
   36.     (1) Where the Minister makes a decision of the kind referred to in section 35, he or she shall cause notice in writing of the decision to be given—  
   37.     (1) A person may appeal against—  

   PART V--MISCELLANEOUS

   38.     (1) A person to whose premises electricity is supplied under a customer supply contract shall not charge any other person for the use of electricity so supplied.  
   39.     (1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare any specified person, or any specified class of persons, to be non-franchise customers for the purposes of this Act.  
   40.     An electricity supply arrangement is unenforceable by any person (other than a retail customer under a customer supply contract) unless, at the time the arrangement was made, the supplier was authorised by a licence to enter into it.  
   41.     Nothing in this Act prevents a customer connection contract and a customer supply contract being contained in a single document.  
   42.     Any monetary penalty imposed by the Minister on the holder of a licence may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.  
   43.     A person who held, or is to be deemed to have held—  
   44.     (1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, determine fees for the purposes of this Act.  
   45.     (1) The Executive may make regulations for the purposes of this Act.  
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