South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts34—Standard terms and conditions for retailing of gas
(1) A gas entity may,
from time to time, fix standard terms and conditions governing the sale and
supply of gas by the entity to small customers or customers of a prescribed
class.
(2) A gas entity must
publish in the Gazette a notice setting out any standard terms and conditions
fixed by the entity.
(2a) A gas entity
must, when it publishes a notice in the Gazette under subsection (2),
also publish a notice in a newspaper circulating generally in the State
describing the general nature of the standard terms and conditions and
advising where a person may read or obtain a copy of the standard terms and
conditions.
(3) Standard terms and
conditions fixed under this section—
(a) must
comply with the conditions of the gas entity's licence; and
(b) must
not fix prices that exceed maximum prices fixed under this Act; and
(c) come
into force on the day specified by the gas entity in the notice of the
standard terms and conditions published in the Gazette under this section,
being a day not earlier than the day on which the notice is published; and
(d) when
in force are contractually binding on the gas entity and the class of
customers to which the terms and conditions are expressed to apply.
(4) Subject to the
conditions of a gas entity's licence, a standard term or condition fixed under
this section may be modified or excluded by express agreement between the
entity and a customer of the entity.
(5) A gas entity that
has fixed standard terms and conditions under this section must—
(a)
supply a copy of the standard terms and conditions, without charge, on request
made to the entity at a place approved by the Commission; and
(b)
publish the standard terms and conditions on a website maintained by the
entity.
Maximum penalty: $2 500.