Electricity Supply (General) Amendment (Marketing Code of Conduct) Regulation 2010 (NSW)

2010 No 722

New South Wales

Electricity Supply (General)

Amendment (Marketing Code of

Conduct) Regulation 2010

under the

Electricity Supply Act 1995

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Electricity Supply Act 1995.

PAUL LYNCH, MP Minister for Energy

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to update the information that is required to be included in a disclosure notice provided by a licence holder under the Electricity Supply Act 1995 who enters into a negotiated customer contract with a small retail customer, in light of new provisions in the Act that facilitate retail price disclosure and comparison. The new requirement is that the disclosure notice must include information about the availability of pricing information published by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal in accordance with the Electricity Supply Act 1995.

This Regulation is made under the Electricity Supply Act 1995, including section 191 (the general regulation-making power) and clause 6 of Schedule 2.

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Clause 1	Regulation 2010

Electricity Supply (General) Amendment (Marketing

Code of Conduct) Regulation 2010

under the

Electricity Supply Act 1995

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Electricity Supply (General) Amendment
(Marketing Code of Conduct) Regulation 2010.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 January 2011 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Electricity Supply (General) Regulation 2001

Clause 42 Information to be provided to small retail customers about contracts

Omit “how the terms of the contract differ from that standard form customer contract” from clause 42 (2A) (f).

Insert instead “the availability of pricing information published by the
Tribunal in accordance with section 181A of the Act”.