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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Industry participants and consumers - Dispute resolution

95A: Indemnity disputes

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“How to settle disagreements about who pays for electricity supply problems”

If you are part of the dispute resolution scheme for the electricity industry, you can use this scheme to settle disagreements about who should pay for certain problems. These disagreements are about something called an ‘indemnity’. An indemnity is a promise to pay for losses or damages.

The specific indemnity this refers to is found in section 46A of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993. This indemnity is about who should pay when there are issues with the electricity supply. If members of the scheme disagree about how this indemnity should be applied, they can use the dispute resolution scheme to sort it out.

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Part 4 Industry participants and consumers
Dispute resolution

95AIndemnity disputes

  1. The dispute resolution scheme may resolve disputes between members of the dispute resolution scheme concerning the application of the indemnity in section 46A of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (an indemnity dispute).

Notes
  • Section 95A: inserted, on , by section 16 of the Consumer Guarantees Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 144).