45Essential service provider must pay costs of technical experts

45 Essential service provider must pay costs of technical experts

45 Essential service provider must pay costs of technical experts

(1) IPART may, by written notice, require an essential service provider to pay a technical expert an amount for the reasonable costs incurred by the technical expert in the preparation or testing of a contingency plan.

(2) The essential service provider must pay the technical expert within—

(a) 28 days after IPART gives written notice of the amount, or

(b) another period agreed between the essential service provider and the technical expert.