Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An on-supply arrangement (type 1) exists for a separate area if the following circumstances apply--
(a) electricity is being supplied to a person (the on-supplier for the on-supply arrangement) for the purposes of a building that includes the separate area;
(b) the electricity is being sold to the on-supplier by an electricity retailer;
(c) the supply of the electricity under paragraph (a) is measured by a meter;
(d) the on-supplier has the facility to further supply and further sell some or all of the electricity for consumption at the separate area;
(e) if electricity is being consumed at the separate area, it is electricity that is being further sold to a person by the on-supplier for the consumption at the separate area.
Examples of on-supply arrangements (type 1)--
1 Electricity sold by an electricity retailer to a shopping centre owner is further sold by the shopping centre owner for consumption at a shop in the centre.
2 Electricity sold by an electricity retailer to a body corporate for a residential building is sold by the body corporate to the building manager who further sells to an owner of a unit in the building.
3 The owner of a shopping centre has the facility to further supply and sell, to a vacant shop in the shopping centre, electricity sold to the owner by an electricity retailer.
(2) For subsection (1), the following do not matter--
(a) whether any further supply and further sale under subsection (1)(d) is directly from the on-supplier, or is achieved under 1 or more arrangements involving entities interposed between the on-supplier and the person to whom the electricity is further supplied and further sold;
(b) whether the separate area is occupied;
(c) whether the separate area is connected for the further supply;
(d) if the separate area is not occupied, whether or not there is an identifiable person to whom electricity is, or may be, further supplied and further sold;
(e) whether electricity is being consumed at the separate area.