Victorian Current Acts

GAS INDUSTRY ACT 2001 - SECT 48DD

    (1)     In this Division, a relevant customer is—

        (a)     in relation to a gas retailer, a relevant customer within the meaning of section 43(6); or

Note

A relevant customer of a gas retailer includes a person who has a deemed contract with the gas retailer under section 46(1) or (2).

        (b)     in relation to an exempt gas seller, a person—

              (i)     to whom the exempt gas seller supplies or sells gas under a supply and sale contract; and

              (ii)     whose total consumption of gas supplied or sold by the exempt gas seller does not exceed more than 1000 gigajoules in any given year.

    (2)     In addition, for the purposes of this Division, a relevant customer , in relation to an exempt gas seller, includes either of the following—

        (a)     a person—

              (i)     who continues to take gas supplied by the exempt gas seller at the person's premises after the person's supply and sale contract with the exempt gas seller has ended or been terminated and that contract does not provide for the gas to be consumed after the contract's end or termination; and

              (ii)     who was a relevant customer as set out under subsection (1)(b);

        (b)     a person who takes gas supplied by the exempt gas seller without having entered into a supply and sale contract with the exempt gas seller.

S. 48DE inserted by No. 28/2021 s. 23 (as amended by No. 41/2021 ss 107–116).