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Electricity Act 1994
sec.91ARetailer must comply with notification or direction
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### sec.91A Retailer must comply with notification or direction
This section applies if there are notified prices for providing customer retail services.
A retailer must charge standard contract customers the notified prices for providing the services.
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
If a retailer has been given a direction under section 91 (4) (a) to charge an amount for GST for providing the services, it must also charge that amount.
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
If a retailer has been given a direction under section 91 (4) (b) to charge the net GST effect for providing the services, it must also charge the net GST effect.
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
To remove any doubt, it is declared that a retailer does not contravene subsection (2) only because the retailer reduces the charges payable by a standard contract customer by the amount the retailer pays the standard contract customer for electricity produced at the standard contract customer’s premises and supplied to a supply network.
This section does not limit section 91 (2) and (3) .
s 91A ins 2000 No. 20 s 29 sch 3
amd 2006 No. 60 s 24 ; 2014 No. 31 s 12 ; 2014 No. 48 s 49
(sec.91A-ssec.1) This section applies if there are notified prices for providing customer retail services.
(sec.91A-ssec.2) A retailer must charge standard contract customers the notified prices for providing the services. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
(sec.91A-ssec.3) If a retailer has been given a direction under section 91 (4) (a) to charge an amount for GST for providing the services, it must also charge that amount. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
(sec.91A-ssec.4) If a retailer has been given a direction under section 91 (4) (b) to charge the net GST effect for providing the services, it must also charge the net GST effect. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
(sec.91A-ssec.5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a retailer does not contravene subsection (2) only because the retailer reduces the charges payable by a standard contract customer by the amount the retailer pays the standard contract customer for electricity produced at the standard contract customer’s premises and supplied to a supply network.
(sec.91A-ssec.6) This section does not limit section 91 (2) and (3) .