6Small customers

6 Small customers

(1) This section applies in relation to an electricity retailer supplying (or proposing to supply) electricity to a consumer. (2) Subject to subsection (3), the consumer is a small customer if the consumer is any of the following types of small customer: (a) a consumer in relation to whom both of the following apply: (i) the electricity is principally for personal, household or domestic use; (ii) the prices for the supply include a controlled load tariff; (b) a consumer in relation to whom both of the following apply: (i) the electricity is principally for personal, household or domestic use; (ii) the prices for the supply do not include a controlled load tariff; (c) a consumer (a small business customer) in relation to whom all of the following apply: (i) the electricity is not principally for personal, household or domestic use; (ii) the supply is, or will be, at a rate of less than 100 MWh a year; (iii) the prices for the supply do not include a controlled load tariff or a flexible tariff. (3) The consumer is not a small customer, of any type, if: (a) the prices for the supply include a demand tariff; or (b) the supply is through a prepayment meter; or (c) the supply is by means of an embedded network.