22Code requirements and compliance

22 Code requirements and compliance

22 Code requirements and compliance

(1) A Social Programs for Energy Code—

(a) may specify that particular services of distributors, retailers or exempt persons are to be provided to particular classes of persons free of charge, at specified charges or subject to specified discounts or rebates, and

(b) may require specified classes of customers to be supplied with electricity at discounted charges or to be given rebates on the charges paid by them for the supply of electricity, and

(c) may require a retailer or exempt person to establish and maintain facilities to ensure that Government payments that are provided to finance the supply of electricity at discounted charges are applied in accordance with the Code, and

(d) may require a retailer or exempt person to establish and maintain trust accounts in which Government payments that are provided to finance the supply of electricity at discounted charges are to be held pending their application in accordance with the Code, and

(e) may require a distributor, retailer or exempt person to furnish the Minister with periodic reports as to compliance with the Code, and

(f) may require a distributor, retailer or exempt person to establish and maintain accounting procedures to enable the reports to be prepared, and

(g) must specify—

(i) the amount assessed by the Minister as the estimated cost to a distributor or retailer or exempt person of efficiently complying with the Code, or

(ii) a methodology by which that cost may be assessed by the Minister, and

(h) must specify arrangements for the payment to the distributor, retailer or exempt person of an amount equivalent to the estimated efficient costs assessed by the Minister, as referred to in paragraph (g), or, if the distributor or retailer or exempt person disputes that assessment, the costs assessed on a re-assessment under this Part.

(2) If a Code adopted under this Part applies to a distributor, it is a condition of the distributor’s licence that the distributor must take the action required by the Code in accordance with the Code.

(3) A distributor, retailer or exempt person must not fail to comply with a Social Programs for Energy Code that is applicable to the distributor, retailer or exempt person.