Victorian Current Acts

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2000 - SECT 40SD

    (1)     A retailer or an exempt electricity seller who arranges for the supply of electricity at a relevant customer's premises to be disconnected other than in accordance with Subdivision 3, and knows, or is reckless as to whether, the disconnection is not in accordance with that Subdivision, is guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding—

        (a)     in the case of a natural person, 1200 penalty units or 10 years imprisonment; or

        (b)     in the case of a body corporate, 6000 penalty units.

    (2)     An offence against subsection (1) is an indictable offence.

S. 40SE inserted by No. 28/2021 s. 9 (as amended by No. 41/2021 ss 94– 103).