5Code requirements and compliance

5 Code requirements and compliance

5 Code requirements and compliance

(1) The Code may require a retailer, exempt person or reticulator to take action specified in the Code.

(2) In particular, the Code—

(a) may specify that retailers, exempt persons or reticulators must supply particular services to particular classes of persons free of charge, at specified charges or subject to specified discounts or rebates, and

(b) may require a retailer or exempt person to supply particular customers with gas at discounted charges or give rebates on the charges paid by the customers for the supply of gas, and

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

(d) may require a retailer or exempt person to keep trust accounts in which Government payments provided to finance the supply of gas at discounted charges must be held pending the application of the payments in accordance with the Code, and

(e) may require a retailer, exempt person or reticulator to give the Minister periodic reports about compliance with the Code, and

(f) may require a retailer, exempt person or reticulator to have 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 retailer, exempt person or reticulator of efficiently complying with the Code, or

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

(h) must specify arrangements for the payment to the retailer, exempt person or reticulator of—

(i) an amount equivalent to the estimated efficient costs assessed by the Minister, as referred to in paragraph (g), or

(ii) if the retailer, exempt person or reticulator disputes the costs assessed by the Minister—an amount assessed on a re-assessment under this part.

(3) A retailer, exempt person or reticulator must not contravene a requirement of the Code that applies to the retailer, exempt person or reticulator.