sec.46Customers to provide safe access

sec.46 Customers to provide safe access

This section applies if the customer does not provide safe access at any reasonable time to read a meter and install, test, maintain or take away the supplier’s works without hindrance or obstruction to— the distribution entity for the premises, a special approval holder, the metering coordinator or the customer’s retailer (the relevant entity ); or an electricity officer of a relevant entity; or a person authorised by a relevant entity. The relevant entity may, by written notice to the customer, require the customer to provide the access within a stated period of at least 1 month. If the customer does not comply with the notice, the relevant entity may install alternative metering or other equipment to enable consumption to be measured by remote or other suitable ways. Subsection (3) does not limit or otherwise affect another remedy the relevant entity has against the customer. The relevant entity may recover from the customer as a debt its costs reasonably incurred in acting under subsection (3) . s 46 sub 2007 SL No. 122 s 8 amd 2018 SL No. 1 s 12 (sec.46-ssec.1) This section applies if the customer does not provide safe access at any reasonable time to read a meter and install, test, maintain or take away the supplier’s works without hindrance or obstruction to— the distribution entity for the premises, a special approval holder, the metering coordinator or the customer’s retailer (the relevant entity ); or an electricity officer of a relevant entity; or a person authorised by a relevant entity. (sec.46-ssec.2) The relevant entity may, by written notice to the customer, require the customer to provide the access within a stated period of at least 1 month. (sec.46-ssec.3) If the customer does not comply with the notice, the relevant entity may install alternative metering or other equipment to enable consumption to be measured by remote or other suitable ways. (sec.46-ssec.4) Subsection (3) does not limit or otherwise affect another remedy the relevant entity has against the customer. (sec.46-ssec.5) The relevant entity may recover from the customer as a debt its costs reasonably incurred in acting under subsection (3) .

• (a) the distribution entity for the premises, a special approval holder, the metering coordinator or the customer’s retailer (the relevant entity ); or
• (b) an electricity officer of a relevant entity; or
• (c) a person authorised by a relevant entity.