Water and Sewerage Industry (Pricing and Related Matters) Regulations 2021
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5 Pricing zones
(1) A price determination may specify that a price and service plan is to include, or is not to include, pricing zones.
(2) A price determination may only specify that a price and service plan is to include pricing zones if there are significant differences in the costs of providing the regulated service to different areas of land within the area to which the regulated service may be provided by the regulated entity.
(3) A price determination is not to require that a price and service plan is to include pricing zones if, in the opinion of the Regulator, the costs of implementing such zones would outweigh the benefits of doing so.
(4) Prices charged, in relation to the provision of a regulated service by a regulated entity in respect of properties within a pricing zone, are to reflect, so far as is commercially and technically practicable, the costs of providing the regulated service to the properties.