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South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009
sec.99ARNon-residential customers
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### sec.99AR Non-residential customers
A distributor-retailer may ask a non-residential customer of the distributor-retailer to give security only if the distributor-retailer reasonably considers the customer does not have—
a satisfactory credit rating; or
a satisfactory water services payment history.
For subsection (1) a customer is a non-residential customer only if—
the customer is a customer of the distributor-retailer for the water services and wastewater services; and
the customer is not a residential customer of the distributor-retailer for the water services and wastewater services; and
no-one else is a customer of the distributor-retailer for water services and wastewater services provided to the premises.
For section (1)(b), a non-residential customer’s water services payment history is taken to be unsatisfactory if the distributor-retailer has evidence that the customer has not paid an account for water services within the past year.
Subsection (3) applies no matter who the account was from.
s 99AR ins 2010 No. 20 s 21
amd 2010 No. 53 s 163
(sec.99AR-ssec.1) A distributor-retailer may ask a non-residential customer of the distributor-retailer to give security only if the distributor-retailer reasonably considers the customer does not have— a satisfactory credit rating; or a satisfactory water services payment history.
(sec.99AR-ssec.2) For subsection (1) a customer is a non-residential customer only if— the customer is a customer of the distributor-retailer for the water services and wastewater services; and the customer is not a residential customer of the distributor-retailer for the water services and wastewater services; and no-one else is a customer of the distributor-retailer for water services and wastewater services provided to the premises.
(sec.99AR-ssec.3) For section (1)(b), a non-residential customer’s water services payment history is taken to be unsatisfactory if the distributor-retailer has evidence that the customer has not paid an account for water services within the past year.
(sec.99AR-ssec.4) Subsection (3) applies no matter who the account was from.
- (a) a satisfactory credit rating; or
- (b) a satisfactory water services payment history.
- (a) the customer is a customer of the distributor-retailer for the water services and wastewater services; and
- (b) the customer is not a residential customer of the distributor-retailer for the water services and wastewater services; and
- (c) no-one else is a customer of the distributor-retailer for water services and wastewater services provided to the premises.