This section contains all current and closed Commission regulatory projects. This includes determinations, reports, inquiries, studies and disclosures relating to telecommunications, electricity lines, gas pipelines, airports and dairy.
The Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 (CCCF Act) has been amended. From April 2021 (delayed until October 2021 due to COVID-19) all directors and senior managers of lenders providing consumer credit contracts or acting as mobile traders are to be certified ‘fit and proper’ unless exempt.
We conducted a review of nearly 80,000 anonymous consumer bills, engaging Schiff Consulting to analyse how residential consumers buy and use mobile plans, add-ons and causal rates for data, mins and SMS.
Effective asset management is crucial for gas pipeline businesses (GPBs). Sound asset management is an integral part of ensuring that GPBs improve efficiency and provide services at a price and quality that reflects the demands of consumers.
An asset management plan (AMP) is intended to be the principal document that communicates gas pipeline businesses asset investment and maintenance plans.
The Commission has engaged an external expert (AECOM) to assess the risk management practices applied by gas pipeline businesses (GPBs) against an internationally recognised risk management framework.
The Commission has engaged an external expert (AECOM) to assess the practices which First Gas Limited apply in managing the geotechnical risks which affect their transmission pipelines.
We have amended the information disclosure determinations for airport services, electricity distribution and gas pipeline businesses to address identified issues for the 2018 disclosure year.