Singapore legislation

Regulation 8

of Electricity (Contestable Consumers) Regulations 2018

Regulation 8

Metering requirements

Subregulation 1

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.

Subregulation 2

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.

Subregulation 3

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.

Subregulation 4

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 —

(a)

from a retail electricity licensee; or

(b)

indirectly from any wholesale electricity market through an MSSL.