Singapore legislation
Regulation 4
Regulation 4
Request for supply
Subregulation 1
A person who requires a supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply and who is not classified as a contestable consumer under the Electricity (Contestable Consumers) Regulations (Rg 4), shall make his request to a market support services licensee for a supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply.
Subregulation 2
Every request referred to in paragraph (1) shall be made in such form as may be provided by the market support services licensee, and shall be accompanied by such plans and specifications of the electrical installation for the conveyance, control and use of the supply of electricity, if any, as may be required by the market support services licensee.
Subregulation 3
A person who requires a supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply and who is classified as a contestable consumer under the Electricity (Contestable Consumers) Regulations shall —
make arrangements with a retail electricity licensee for a supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply if he wishes to purchase electricity from the retail electricity licensee;
apply to the Authority for an electricity licence to trade in a wholesale electricity market, and make arrangements with a licensed operator of a wholesale electricity market for a supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply if he wishes to purchase electricity from a wholesale electricity market directly; or (c)make arrangements with a market support services licensee for a supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply if he wishes to purchase electricity from a wholesale electricity market indirectly through a market support services licensee.
Subregulation 4
The person referred to in paragraph (3) shall —
make arrangements with the transmission licensee in respect of the provision of transmission services; and
in the case of paragraph (3)(a) and (b), make arrangements with a market support services licensee in respect of the provision of market support services.
Subregulation 5
The person referred to in paragraph (3) shall complete such forms and provide such plans and specifications of the electrical installation for the conveyance, control and use of the supply of electricity as may be required by the relevant electricity licensee.
Subregulation 6
Where, at a time of the request or arrangement referred to in paragraph (1) or (3) —
the premises for which a supply or a continuance of a supply of electricity is requested or arranged are already served by an electrical installation; and
such electrical installation is owned by a person other than the person who made such request or arrangement,the retail electricity licensee or market support services licensee, as the case may be, to whom the request or with whom the arrangement is made shall not procure or arrange for the supply of electricity or a continuance of such supply so requested or arranged unless it is satisfied that the owner of such electrical installation consents to the electrical installation being used for the purpose of the supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply so requested or arranged.
Subregulation 7
Where a retail electricity licensee is unable to continue to provide a supply of electricity or a continuance of such a supply to the person referred to in paragraph (3) who requested or arranged for such supply to be provided by the retail electricity licensee, the Authority may direct a market support services licensee to make arrangements for such person to purchase electricity indirectly from a wholesale electricity market at prevailing market prices for the continuance of such a supply of electricity.