7Contracts

7 Contracts

(1)  This section applies to a customer who has contractual rights (which may be aggregate rights arising under 2 or more separate contracts) to draw electricity from a power system at a rate of 50 megawatts or above.

(2)  If, before the commencement of this Act, the HEC entered into a contract for the supply of electricity to a customer to which this section applies –

(a) on conditions prohibiting or restricting the re-supply of the electricity; or

(b) on conditions providing for price discrimination according to whether the electricity is, or is not, to be re-supplied –

the contractual conditions and anything done to enforce the conditions are, for the purposes of section 51 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 of the Commonwealth, authorised by this Act.

(3)  If, before the commencement of this Act, the HEC entered into contracts with one or more customers to which this section applies and it appears from comparison of the conditions of the contracts that there is price discrimination according to whether the electricity is, or is not, re-supplied, the contractual conditions and anything done to enforce the conditions are, for the purposes of section 51 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 of the Commonwealth, authorised by this Act.