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Electricity Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Licensing of Activities Relating to Electricity

21. Non-contestable consumers

(1)

A market support services licensee must 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)

A market support services licensee must not discontinue the provision of market support services to any non-contestable consumer except in accordance with its licence.

(3)

Nothing in this section is to be taken as requiring a market support services licensee to procure a supply of electricity to the premises of any non-contestable consumer if —

(a)

it is prevented from doing so by circumstances not within its control;

(b)

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

(c)

any building on the premises has been erected in contravention of any written law or is in a ruinous or dangerous condition.

Terms defined in s 2

Authority
Defined · s 2
“Authority” means the Energy Market Authority of Singapore established under the Energy Market Authority of Singapore Act 2001;
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electricity
Defined · s 2
“electricity” means electrical power when generated, transmitted, supplied or used for any purpose except the transmission of any communication or signal;
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electricity licensee
Defined · s 2
“electricity licensee” means any person who is granted an electricity licence by the Authority;
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market support services
Defined · s 2
“market support services” means any of the following activities in connection with the supply of electricity: (a)the reading of the register of any electricity meter and the management of data relating to meter reading;(b)the facilitation of access to any wholesale electricity market for the purposes of obtaining supply of electricity for contestable consumers and retail electricity licensees;(c)the provision of customer transfer services for retail electricity licensees and consumers to facilitate the transfer of contestable consumers between one retail electricity licensee and another or between retail electricity licensees and market support services licensees;(d)the provision of other services related to access to any wholesale electricity market and the retail electricity market; and(e)the supply and sale of electricity to non‑contestable consumers;
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market support services licensee
Defined · s 2
“market support services licensee” means a person who is authorised by an electricity licence to provide market support services;
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non-contestable consumer
Defined · s 2
“non-contestable consumer” means a consumer who is not a contestable consumer;
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premises
Defined · s 2
“premises” includes buildings, structures, streets, lands, waters, tenements, easements of any tenure, whether State land or not, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
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supply
Defined · s 2
“supply” means the supply of electricity through electric lines, and includes —(a)the supply of electricity generated outside Singapore to any person or premises in Singapore; and(b)the supply of electricity generated in Singapore to any person or premises outside Singapore;
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