Singapore legislation
Clause 21
Clause 21
Non-contestable consumers
(1)
A market support services licensee shall provide market support services to a non-contestable consumer in accordance with this Act and its licence, and on terms and conditions approved by the Authority.
(2)
Any existing agreement under which any person supplies and sells electricity to a non-contestable consumer shall cease to have effect from the appointed day.
(3)
Nothing in subsection (2) shall have the effect of extinguishing any right or liability of any party under the existing agreement referred to in that subsection where such right or liability had accrued on the appointed day.
(4)
A market support services licensee shall not discontinue the provision of market support services to any non-contestable consumer except in accordance with its licence.
(5)
Nothing in this section shall be taken as requiring a market support services licensee to procure a supply of electricity to the premises of any non-contestable consumer if —
it is prevented from doing so by circumstances not within its control;
circumstances exist by reason of which its doing so would or might involve the market support services licensee or any other electricity licensee being in breach of this Act, and the market support services licensee or other electricity licensee has taken all reasonable steps to prevent the circumstances from occurring and to prevent them from having that effect; or
any building on the premises has been erected in contravention of any written law or is in a ruinous or dangerous condition.