Australian Capital Territory

Utilities (Variation of Terms – ActewAGL Retail Standard Customer Contract) Approval Notice 2009 (No 2)

Notifiable Instrument NI2009-292

made under the

Utilities Act 2000, s 91 (Notification and application of terms etc) and 
s 93 (Variation of terms)

1	Name of instrument
This instrument is the Utilities (Variation of Terms – ActewAGL Retail Standard Customer Contract) Approval Notice 2009 (No 2).
2	Commencement 
This instrument commences on the day after it is notified. 
3	Approval of variation of standard customer contract for gas connection and supply services
The Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission approves the variation at Schedule 1 to ActewAGL Retail’s schedule of charges in the standard customer contract for gas connection and supply services. 

Paul Baxter
Senior Commissioner
Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission
22 June 2009

Schedule of charges for ACT only – natural gas tariffs
The following rates (from 1.1 to 2.2) apply from 1 July 2009. Accounts issued on or after that date will be charged on a pro-rata basis.
		From 1 January 2009
GST exclusive rate	2009-10 GST exclusive rate	2009-10 GST inclusive rate	
1	Residential				
1.1	Always Home@ActewAGL plan*
•	Supply fee  (c/day)
•	Usage rate  (c/MJ)	

49.03
1.735	

51.69
1.806	

56.859
1.9866	
1.2	Always Home@ActewAGL Saver plan*
•	Supply fee  (c/day)
•	Usage rate  (c/MJ)	

49.03
1.735	

51.69
1.806	

56.859
1.9866	
1.3	Always Home@ActewAGL Saver Plus plan
•	Supply fee  (c/day)
•	Usage rate  (c/MJ)
•	First 49.3151MJ/day
•	Thereafter	

61.99

1.495
1.655	

64.69

1.634
1.704	

71.159

1.7974
1.8744	
1.4	Eligible pensioners may be entitled to an energy concession which covers both electricity and natural gas, but only appears on electricity accounts.
*   The Always Home@ActewAGL plan and the Always Home@ActewAGL Saver plan merged on 1 July 2005.

		From 1 January 2009
GST exclusive rate	2009-10 GST exclusive rate	2009-10 GST inclusive rate	
2	Industrial and commercial				
2.1	Daily
•	Supply fee (c/day)
•	Usage rates (c/MJ)
•	First 1,643.8356 MJ/day 
•	Thereafter	
102.78

1.615
1.495	
102.78

1.736
1.533	
113.058

1.9096
1.6863	

The following miscellaneous fees and charges, applicable from 1 July 2009, continue to apply
		2008-09
GST exclusive rate	2009-10
GST exclusive rate	2009-10
GST inclusive rate	
3	Miscellaneous fees and charges – ACT				
3.1	Establishment fee (new customer account)	
$27.73	
$28.91	
$31.80	
3.2	Establishment fee (pensioners)	$11.18	$11.64	$12.80	
3.3	Attendance (debt collection) first visit in a 12-month period (in business hours)
Attendance (debt collection) within a year of a previous visit (in business hours)	

$46.36

$63.64	

$48.18

$66.36	

$53.00

$73.00	
3.4	Disconnection fee (for non payment)	$49.55	$51.73	$56.90	
3.5	Reconnection fee (business hours)
Reconnection fee (after hours)	$43.91
$67.36	$46.36
$70.27	$51.00
$77.30	
3.6	Check read (second in a billing period)	
$39.27	
$41.00	
$45.10	
3.7	Disconnection notification fee (for late payment)	
$12.82	
$13.36	
$14.70	
3.8	Dishonoured cheque and credit card reversal (administration charge). The greater of	$12.73 per account or 
$29.09 per cheque or reversal	$13.64 per account or 
$30.00 per cheque or reversal	$15.00 per account or 
$33.00 per cheque or reversal	
3.9	Direct debit reject (administration charge per reject)	
$8.18	
$8.18	
$9.00	
3.10	Service application fee:
•	Residential
•	Business	
$268.18
N/A
	
$268.18
$995.45	
$295.00
$1,095.00	
					
3.11	Special meter read:
•	Meter connection read
•	Final meter read	
$45.40
$45.40	
$47.30
$47.30	
$52.03
$52.03	
3.12	Network disconnection fee	$116.30	$121.30	$133.43	
3.13	Network reconnection fee	$85.90	$89.60	$98.56	
3.14	Meter testing charges:
•	12 cubic metres
•	33 cubic metres
•	85 cubic metres
•	300 cubic metres
•	880 cubic metres	
$47.80
$68.20
$91.10
$342.50
$913.80	
$49.80
$71.10
$95.00
$357.40
$953.50	
$54.78
$78.21
$104.50
$393.14
$1,048.85