New Zealand Legislation: Acts

43E Access to dispute resolution scheme

• (1) Any person described in subsection (2) may make a complaint to the dispute resolution scheme concerning a gas distributor or a gas retailer.

  (2) The persons who may make a complaint are any persons (including consumers, potential consumers, and owners and occupiers of land) except members of the dispute resolution scheme.

  (3) The dispute resolution scheme is either—

  • (a) the approved scheme identified in clause 3 of Schedule 4 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010; or

  • (b) the regulated scheme provided for in regulations made under clause 18 of Schedule 4 of that Act.

  (4) The procedures for making complaints to the dispute resolution scheme are as set out in the rules of the dispute resolution scheme.

  Compare: 1992 No 122 s 158G

  Section 43E: substituted, on 1 November 2010, by section 166 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 (2010 No 116).