Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Notice of Making of Amendments to the Gas (Switching Arrangements) Rules 2008

Pursuant to section 43R of the Gas Act 1992 (“Act”), I notify the making of amendments to the Gas (Switching Arrangements) Rules 2008 (“Rules”) under section 43Q of the Act.

The empowering provision for the gas governance regulation in relation to which the amendments to the Rules are made is section 43G(2)(c) of the Act.

The purpose of the Rules is to provide gas switching and registry arrangements that enable customers to choose, and alternate, efficiently and satisfactorily between competing gas retailers.

The amendments to the Rules will improve customer billing processes, increase oversight of the quality and maintenance of information in the Registry, reduce the maximum timeframe for gas switches from 23 to 10 business days, and make minor and technical changes to improve the rules and implement aspects of a new framework for addressing retailer insolvency.

The amendments to the Rules come into force on 14 September 2015.

Copies of the Rules are available:

  1. for inspection, free of charge:
    1. at the head office of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), 15 Stout Street, Wellington, and at the head office of the Gas Industry Company (GIC), Level 8, The Todd Building, 95 Customhouse Quay, Wellington (during ordinary office hours); and
    2. on the internet on the websites of MBIE at
      www.mbie.govt.nz
      and the GIC at
      www.gasindustry.co.nz
  2. for purchase at the head office of the GIC, Level 8, The Todd Building, 95 Customhouse Quay, Wellington (during ordinary office hours).

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of July 2015.

Hon SIMON BRIDGES, Minister of Energy and Resources.