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WATER AND SEWERAGE INDUSTRY (CUSTOMER SERVICE STANDARDS) REGULATIONS 2009 (S.R. 2009, NO. 145) - REG 19
Methods of payment
(1) A code must specify the methods by which a customer of a regulated
entity may pay to the entity an amount of money owed to the entity by the
customer.
(2) The code must require a regulated entity to specify, in a customer
charter, the methods by which a member of the class of customers to which the
charter relates may pay money owed to the entity.
(3) A code must specify that the methods that may be specified in a
regulated entity's customer charter (a) must include, but are not
limited to including, the methods specified in the code; and
(b) may relate to
the capacity to pay of a customer who is in arrears to, or is likely to become
in arrears to, the entity.
(4) A code must state that a regulated entity may recover from a
customer a fee, of a kind that is specified in the entity's customer charter,
if the entity has incurred a fee because a payment by the customer has been
dishonoured or reversed.
(5) A code must specify that a regulated entity may include a fee of the
kind referred to in subregulation (4) in relation to a
customer (a) in the next account issued to the customer as part of
a regular sequence of accounts; or
(b) in an account for the fee that is sent
to the customer otherwise than as part of a regular sequence of accounts, if
the entity will not be issuing an account to a customer as part of a regular
sequence of accounts because a service to the customer has been disconnected,
or for any other reason.
(6) A code must specify that a regulated entity (a) may
provide a discount to a customer; and
(b) must specify in its customer charter
each discount that may be provided to a customer.
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