(1) There is, for the purposes of Subdivision 3 of Division 4 of Part 3 of the Act, a class of eligible persons to be referred to as the class of life support concession holders.
(2) A person is, on a day, a member of the class of life support concession holders, and an eligible person, in respect of residential premises, if the person is, on that day, eligible for the life support concession in respect of the residential premises.
(3) A person is, on a day, eligible for the life support concession in respect of residential premises if –
(i) requires an approved home-based life support machine at the premises; or
(ii) resides at those premises with another person who requires an approved home-based life support machine at the premises; and
(c) the authorised retailer who supplies electricity to the premises has been notified, on or before that day, that the person is eligible for the life support concession in respect of the premises; and
(4) For the purposes of this clause, an authorised retailer has been notified by a person that the person is eligible for the life support concession in respect of premises if the person has submitted to the authorised retailer an accurately completed application, in a form approved by an authorised person, that –
Section 4 - Electricity Supply Industry Concession Order 2016 - Life support concession | Zoe
[Clause 4 Subclause (4) substituted by S.R. 2019, No. 45, Applied:28 Jun 2019]
(a) claims the life support concession in respect of the premises; and
(b) includes a certification from a medical practitioner that the person, or another person (who is a person who resides with the person), requires an approved home-based life support machine at the premises.
(5) If –
(a) a person is a surviving spouse in relation to a deceased person; and
(b) the deceased person was, immediately before his or her death, eligible for the life support concession in respect of residential premises; and
(c) an electricity account, in relation to the premises, that is in the name of the deceased person is paid by or on behalf of the surviving spouse; and
(d) the surviving spouse is, on the day on which the electricity account is paid, eligible for the life support concession in respect of the premises –
the surviving spouse is, despite subclause (3)(c) , taken to have been, in relation to the electricity account, eligible for the life support concession in respect of the premises on each day during the period to which the electricity account relates, even if the authorised retailer has not been, on or before that day, notified that the person is eligible for the life support concession in respect of the premises.
the person submits to the authorised retailer a further accurately completed application referred to in subclause (4) (the further application), the authorised retailer may, in its discretion, determine that the further application is to be taken to have been submitted to the authorised retailer on the day that is 4 years after the former application was submitted.
(6) Except if subclause (5) applies to the person, an authorised retailer is not required to provide to a person the life support concession in respect of premises for a day unless the retailer has been, on or before that day, notified that the person is eligible for the life support concession in respect of the premises.
(7) An authorised retailer that issues to a person an electricity account in relation to the supply of electricity to residential premises during a period is required to provide to the person the life support concession in respect of the premises for each day, during that period, on which the person is, under subclause (2) , an eligible person in respect of the premises.
(8) The life support concession, in respect of premises in which is situated an approved home-based life support machine of the type specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 , is, for a day, the amount specified opposite that machine in column 2 of Schedule 1 .