Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ENERGY AND WATER OMBUDSMAN REGULATION 2022 - REG 2

2 Prescribed energy entities—Act, s 7

(1) For section 7 (2) of the Act , the following entities are prescribed to be energy entities—

(a) a retailer whose retailer authorisation under the NERL (Qld) authorises the retailer to sell electricity by on-supplying it to residential customers;

(b) an exempt seller, if either of the following exemptions under the NERL (Qld) , part 5 , division 6 is in force in relation to the exempt seller—

(i) an individual exemption under which the exempt seller sells electricity by on-supplying it to residential customers;

(ii) an exemption included in class D2, D6, R2, R3 or R4 described in the AER Exempt Selling Guidelines applying to retail exemptions;

(c) a person who holds an exemption under the National Electricity (Queensland) Law , section 12 or 13 , if the exemption is included in class ND2, ND6, NR2, NR3 or NR4 described in the network exemption guideline.

(2) In this section—

"AER Exempt Selling Guidelines" see the NERL (Qld) , section 118 (1) .

"NER" see the NERL (Qld) , section 2 (1) .

"network exemption guideline" means the ‘Electricity network service provider - registration exemption guideline’ made under the NER, clause 2.5.1(e).

"residential customer" see the NERL (Qld) , section 2 (1) .