Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL ENERGY RETAIL LAW (QUEENSLAND) ACT 2014 - SECT 22

22 Customer retail contracts—standard retail contracts for particular large customers

(1) This section applies if—

(a) for a large customer’s premises, a retailer is—

(i) if there is no existing connection—the local area retailer for the relevant geographical area, premises or customer; or

Note—

See the NERL (Qld), section 11(3).

(ii) if there is an existing connection (including where a connection alteration to an existing connection is required)—the financially responsible retailer for the premises; and

(b) immediately before the commencement, the large customer and the retailer were parties to a pre-NERL large customer standard retail contract for the provision of customer retail services to the premises (the
"relevant services" ).

(2) If, on the commencement, the retailer is an assigned retailer, the pre-NERL large customer standard retail contract is replaced with a contract between the large customer and the retailer in the form of the retailer’s NERL large customer standard retail contract for the provision of the relevant services at the retailer’s notified prices.

(3) Subsection (2) applies despite the NERL (Qld), section 64E, but otherwise the NERL (Qld) applies to the contract in the same way as it applies to a large customer standard retail contract formed under the NERL (Qld).

(4) If, on the commencement, the retailer is not an assigned retailer, the pre-NERL large customer standard retail contract continues as a contract for the provision of the relevant services on the same terms and conditions applying immediately before the commencement.

(5) In this section—

"assigned retailer" means an assigned retailer under the NERL (Qld), section 2(1).

"NERL large customer standard retail contract" , for an assigned retailer, means a contract in the form of the retailer’s large customer standard retail contract under the NERL (Qld).

"notified prices" , for an assigned retailer, means the notified prices applying to the retailer under the Electricity Act, section 90(4).

"pre-NERL large customer standard retail contract" means a standard large customer retail contract under the Electricity Act as in force before the commencement.