Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations(1) A customer is taken to be a large customer if—
(a) the amounts of electricity required to be used for the Act, definition of "large customer", as measured from the point of consumption, are used by the customer in the year preceding the making of the election to be an elective participant; or
(b) the regulator is satisfied that the customer is likely to use the required amounts of electricity in the year in which the election is to have effect.
(2) A customer is taken to be a large customer who uses electricity at 2 or more sites in the ACT if—
(a) subsection (1) applies to the customer; and
(b) each site is owned or occupied by the customer.
(3) A corporation (other than a retail supplier) is taken to be a large customer who uses electricity at 2 or more sites in the ACT if—
(a) the corporation is one of a number of related body corporates; and
(b) the corporation is the purchaser of electricity, on behalf of one or more of the related body corporates, used at sites in the ACT that are owned or occupied by one or more of the related body corporates; and
(c) either—
(i) the total electricity used by the corporation, at sites in the ACT that are owned or occupied by the corporation, and the related body corporates for which the corporation purchased electricity, in the year before an election by the corporation to be an elective participant, equalled or exceeded the amounts required to be used by a customer for the dictionary, definition of "large customer", paragraph (b); or
(ii) the regulator is satisfied that the corporation and any related body corporates are likely to use those amounts of electricity, at sites in the ACT that are owned or occupied by the corporation or related body corporates, in the year in which the election is to have effect.
(4) In this section:
"related body corporate"—see the Corporations Act, section 9 (dictionary).