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Electricity Act 1992

Disciplinary provisions - Exercise of disciplinary powers

147N: Costs and expenses

You could also call this:

“The Board can make someone pay for the costs of investigating and hearing a complaint against them”

If someone has been disciplined under section 147M, the Board can tell them to pay money to cover the costs of the complaint. This includes the costs of:

  1. Looking into the complaint
  2. Bringing the complaint forward
  3. The Board’s hearing

The Board decides how much the person should pay. They will choose an amount they think is fair and reasonable.

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Part 11 Disciplinary provisions
Exercise of disciplinary powers

147NCosts and expenses

  1. In any case to which section 147M applies, the Board may order the person concerned to pay to the Board any sum that it considers just and reasonable towards the costs and expenses of, and incidental to,—

  2. the investigator's investigation of the complaint:
    1. the prosecution of the complaint by the investigator:
      1. the hearing by the Board.

        Notes
        • Section 147N: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).