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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Electricity industry governance - Monitoring and enforcement - Appeals

64: Appeal on question of law

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“You can ask a higher court to check if a decision followed the law correctly”

You can appeal to the High Court if you disagree with a decision made by the Authority or the Rulings Panel. However, you can only appeal if you think there’s a mistake in how they applied the law. You can’t appeal just because you don’t like their decision. This means that if you want to challenge their decision, you need to show that they didn’t follow the law correctly when they made it.

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Monitoring and enforcement: Appeals

64Appeal on question of law

  1. There is a right of appeal to the High Court, on a question of law only, against any decision of the Authority or the Rulings Panel.

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