sec.16Customers and their types

sec.16 Customers and their types

A customer is a person who receives, or wants to receive, a reticulated covered gas. However, a receiver is only a customer if the receiver’s premises has an installation for a covered gas that, to the reasonable satisfaction of the distributor whose distribution area includes the premises, is capable of receiving supply directly from a distribution system. A small customer is a person who is— a small customer, for covered gas, under the NERL (Qld), section 5 (2) ; or an excluded customer to whom a covered gas may be sold for premises only by an exempt seller and— who purchases the covered gas from the exempt seller principally for personal, household or domestic use at premises; or who consumes energy at premises below the upper consumption threshold applying under the NERL (Qld), section 6 . An excluded customer is a person whose premises are located in— the Maranoa distribution area; or the Western Downs distribution area. In this section— Maranoa distribution area means the distribution area described in the distribution authority held by the Maranoa Regional Council. Western Downs distribution area means the distribution area described in the distribution authority held by the Western Downs Regional Council. s 16 sub 2006 No. 60 s 68 amd 2014 No. 48 s 112 ; 2023 No. 25 s 31 sch 1 (sec.16-ssec.1) A customer is a person who receives, or wants to receive, a reticulated covered gas. (sec.16-ssec.2) However, a receiver is only a customer if the receiver’s premises has an installation for a covered gas that, to the reasonable satisfaction of the distributor whose distribution area includes the premises, is capable of receiving supply directly from a distribution system. (sec.16-ssec.3) A small customer is a person who is— a small customer, for covered gas, under the NERL (Qld), section 5 (2) ; or an excluded customer to whom a covered gas may be sold for premises only by an exempt seller and— who purchases the covered gas from the exempt seller principally for personal, household or domestic use at premises; or who consumes energy at premises below the upper consumption threshold applying under the NERL (Qld), section 6 . (sec.16-ssec.4) An excluded customer is a person whose premises are located in— the Maranoa distribution area; or the Western Downs distribution area. (sec.16-ssec.5) In this section— Maranoa distribution area means the distribution area described in the distribution authority held by the Maranoa Regional Council. Western Downs distribution area means the distribution area described in the distribution authority held by the Western Downs Regional Council.

• (a) a small customer, for covered gas, under the NERL (Qld), section 5 (2) ; or
• (b) an excluded customer to whom a covered gas may be sold for premises only by an exempt seller and— (i) who purchases the covered gas from the exempt seller principally for personal, household or domestic use at premises; or (ii) who consumes energy at premises below the upper consumption threshold applying under the NERL (Qld), section 6 .