Electricity Act 1994

Section 328 stops applying to a small customer’s qualifying generator mentioned in section 328(1)(a) or (b) that is connected at the small customer’s premises to a distribution entity’s supply network if the name on an electricity account for the premises is changed to another person.Example of when the name on an electricity account may be changed—The premises are sold or rented out.

Subsection (1) does not apply if the name on the electricity account is changed to a person whose spouse was a small customer for the premises immediately before the person became a small customer for the premises.

Section 328 does not apply to a small customer’s qualifying generator mentioned in section 328(1)(b) that is connected at the small customer’s premises to a distribution entity’s supply network if—

the qualifying generator has not been connected at the premises to the network by the end of 30 June 2013; or

the qualifying generator has not been ready to be connected at the premises to the supply network by the end of 30 June 2013.

Subsection (5) applies if, under this section, section 328 stops applying, or does not apply, to a small customer’s qualifying generator that is a small photovoltaic generator.

It is a condition of the distribution entity’s distribution authority that, until a day (not later than 1 July 2028) prescribed under a regulation, the distribution entity credit against the charges payable by a small customer for the premises, for customer connection services provided to the small customer in a relevant supply period, the prescribed credit amount for electricity mentioned in section 44A(1)(b).

In this section—qualifying generator has the same meaning as that term has under section 328(2).