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Gas Pricing and Domestic Demand Regulations 2023

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(16) 
Where 
a producer and wholesale customer, afier having been 
allocated the gas purchase order by 
the domestic gas aggregator, decide to 
discontinue the use of the escrow account mechanism under section 154(g) 
of the Act and enter into an agreement pursuant to section |10(2) of the Act. 
the producer and wholesale customer shall inform the domestic gas aggregator, 
the Commission and the Authority, and the related gas volumes shall no longer 
be part of the regulated domestic market and the parties shall no longer be 
client of the domestic gas aggregator, 
12. 
A domestic gas aggregator shall inform a producer of the aggregate 
gas price determined by the domestic gas aggregator pursuant to the aggregate 
ol the volumes delivered to the power and commercial sectors, and gas based 
industries. 
13.—(1) A person shall not supply natural gas to retail gas customers 
without a gas retail licence or a gas distribution licence. 
(2) Prior 
to the commencement of these Regulations, a person supplying 
natural gas to one or more retail gas customers without a licence shall, within 
90 days of the commencement of these Regulations, apply to the Authority for 
the applicable licence. 
(3) The Authority shall ensure customer protection, and prevent anti- 
competitive behaviour and discriminatory conduct with respect to prices 
charged, services provided, and tariffs applied to retail gas customers by gas 
distributors. 
(4) A gas distributor shall within 90 days from the commencement of 
these Regulations submit to the Authority information neces 
of the prices charged, services provided, and tari 
distributor. 
sary for the review 
applied by such gas 
(5) The Authority shall within one year from the effective date of these 
Regulations, determine with respect to each gas distributor, whether the prices 
charged, services provided, and tarif 
subregulation (3) of this regulation and where such prices, services or tariffs 
do not comply, the Authority shall order the gas distributor to make such 
adjustments as required by the Authority. 
14.—(1) The Authority shall, in determining whether a free market has 
been achieved for the power sector, commercial sector or gas based industries. 
make a decision based on the follow ing — 
(a) whether the respective sector is largely unregulated pursuant to the 
information contained in the information supplied pursuant to regulation 
4(1) 
of these Regulations 
; 
(6) whether gas delivery by pipelines or trucks are adequate to ensure 
liquidity and that no Monopoly or cartels are significant in the market : 
s applied comply with the provisions of 
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Gas pricing 
for retail gas 
customers. 
Adoption of 
free market 
conditions.