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14 “market support services licensee” means a person who is authorised by an electricity licence to provide market support services;

“modification” includes any amendment, addition, alteration and variation;

“non-contestable consumer” means a consumer who is not a contestable consumer;

“occupier” means the person in occupation of any premises and includes the person having the charge, management or control of the premises either on his own account or as an agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;

“premises” includes buildings, structures, streets, lands, waters, tenements, easements of any tenure, whether State land or not, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;

“regulations” means the regulations made under this Act;

“retail” means to sell or offer to sell electricity to a contestable consumer;

“retail electricity licensee” means a person who is authorised by an electricity licence to retail electricity to a contestable consumer;

“retail electricity market” means the market in which electricity is retailed to a contestable consumer;

“shares”, in relation to a company, means shares in, or stocks forming part of, the capital of the company;

“street” includes any road, highway, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way, the way over any public bridge, and any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to 2 or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, sewers, drains, tunnels, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of the street;