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Commerce Act 1986

Regulated goods or services - Default/customised price-quality regulation - Customised price-quality paths

53T: Process and timing for assessing proposal

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"How the Commission checks and decides on a proposal for a custom price plan"

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When you make a proposal for a customised price-quality path, the Commission checks if it meets the rules. If it does, the Commission tells people that your proposal is being considered and how they can get a copy of it. The Commission also sets a date for people to give their opinions on your proposal.

The Commission thinks about what people say about your proposal by the set date. You can find more information about what happens next in sections 53U and 53Z. The Commission makes a decision on your proposal within 150 working days of getting all the necessary information.

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Part 4Regulated goods or services
Default/customised price-quality regulation: Customised price-quality paths

53TProcess and timing for assessing proposal

  1. Once the Commission decides that a proposal complies with the input methodologies relating to the process for, and content of, customised price-quality path proposals, it must—

  2. give notice that the proposal is under consideration, and how copies of the proposal may be obtained; and
    1. set a date for interested persons to make submissions on the proposal; and
      1. have regard to any submissions made by that date.

        1. The Commission must make a determination on a proposal for a customised price-quality path within 150 working days of receiving a complete proposal, subject to sections 53U and 53Z.

        Notes
        • Section 53T: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Commerce Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 70).