Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1997 (NO. 81 OF 1997) - SECT 6

6. (1) Application may be made to an electricity distributor—

        (a)     by a person who owns or occupies premises within the distributor's distribution district (other than a person who is entitled to the provision of customer connection services under an agreement or arrangement other than a customer connection contract); or

        (b)     by any other person on behalf of such a person;

for the provision of customer connection services to those premises.

(2) An electricity distributor to which an application is made shall—

        (a)     provide customer connection services to the applicant's premises under the customer connection contract applicable to the applicant; or

        (b)     ensure that customer connection services are so provided.

(3) The right that a person has under this section to have premises provided with customer connection services is subject to any provision of this Act or the regulations that authorises the disconnection of those premises from, or the refusal to connect those premises to, a distribution system.

(4) It is a condition of an electricity distributor's licence that the distributor fulfil the obligations imposed on it by this section.