Electricity (Contestable Consumers) Regulations 2018

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

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Subject to regulations 4 and 5, a consumer is classified as a contestable consumer in respect of any premises lawfully used or occupied by the consumer if the consumer has a contestable consumer account with an MSSL for those premises.

An MSSL must, without undue delay after receiving an application made by a consumer to open a contestable consumer account for any subject premises, open such account.

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An application mentioned in paragraph (2) must be in the form specified by the MSSL, and must include any information requested by the MSSL.

The classification of a consumer as a contestable consumer for any subject premises takes effect from the date on which the contestable consumer account of the consumer for those premises is opened by the MSSL under paragraph (2), and the MSSL must notify the consumer of that date.

This regulation applies where —

Where the subject premises comprise the entire of a building or cluster of buildings, the consumer is not classified as a contestable consumer under regulation 3 unless the consumer has the consent of all sub‑meter consumers of the subject premises to purchase electricity for those premises.

Where the subject premises comprise a part of a building or cluster of buildings, the consumer is not classified as a contestable consumer under regulation 3 unless —

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In this regulation and regulation 6, “sub‑meter consumer” means a person who is liable to pay the consumer mentioned in paragraph (1) for electricity metered through a sub‑meter for a part of a building or cluster of buildings.

A consumer who is classified as a contestable consumer under regulation 3 for any subject premises ceases to be classified as such for those premises if —

The cessation of classification as a contestable consumer takes effect —

A consumer who is a contestable consumer under regulation 3 for any subject premises may apply to the MSSL with whom the consumer holds a contestable consumer account for the subject premises, to close the account if —

For the purpose of paragraph (1)(b) and subject to paragraph (3), the aggregate electricity consumption of the consumer is the sum total of the consumer’s average monthly electricity consumption at each of the consumer’s subject premises and specified non‑residential premises over the 12‑month period mentioned in paragraph (1)(b).

Despite paragraph (2), where the account of the consumer with the MSSL (whether or not as a contestable consumer) has been opened for any of the subject premises or specified non-residential premises of the consumer for less than the 12-month period mentioned in paragraph (2), then —

An application mentioned in paragraph (1) must be in the form specified by the MSSL, and must include any information requested by the MSSL.

An MSSL must, without undue delay after receiving an application mentioned in paragraph (1), close the contestable consumer account for the subject premises.

The classification of a consumer as a contestable consumer for any subject premises ceases from the date on which the contestable consumer account is closed by the MSSL under paragraph (5), and the MSSL must notify the consumer of that date.

A consumer who is a contestable consumer under regulation 3 for any subject premises may, if regulation 7 does not apply, apply to the Authority to close the contestable consumer account of the consumer for the subject premises.

The Authority must not approve an application made under paragraph (1) unless the Authority is satisfied that —

Where the Authority approves an application made under paragraph (1), the Authority must direct the MSSL to close the contestable consumer account of the consumer for the subject premises.

The MSSL must, without undue delay after receiving the direction of the Authority, close the contestable consumer account for the subject premises.

The classification of the consumer as a contestable consumer for the subject premises ceases from the date on which the contestable consumer account is closed by the MSSL under paragraph (4), and the MSSL must notify the consumer of that date.

A contestable consumer who is using a telephone line to enable the remote reading of a meter at any subject premises must continue to maintain the telephone line until the meter is replaced by a transmission licensee with another meter that can be remotely read without a telephone line.

Subject to paragraph (1), a contestable consumer must maintain a remotely read interval meter for any subject premises of the consumer that are non‑residential premises.

Subject to paragraph (1), a contestable consumer must maintain a remotely read interval meter for any subject premises of the consumer that are residential premises if the consumer purchases electricity for those premises directly from any wholesale electricity market.

Subject to paragraph (1), a contestable consumer must maintain a remotely read interval meter or adopt load‑profiling as determined by the Authority for any subject premises of the consumer that are residential premises, if the consumer purchases electricity for those premises —

An MSSL must collect and use an individual’s unique identity information —

An individual’s unique identity information for the purposes of paragraph (1) is any of the following:

The Electricity (Contestable Consumers) Regulations 2015 (G.N. No. S 274/2015) are revoked.

Any consumer who is classified as a contestable consumer under the revoked Electricity (Contestable Consumers) Regulations 2015 and who remains so classified immediately before 1 April 2018, continues to be a contestable consumer for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations.