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48 :(c) not being a market support services licensee, shall immediately inform the market support services licensee of the discontinuance.

(2) An electricity licensee shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused to any person by such discontinuance of the supply of electricity to the person.

Emergency plans

40.—(1) The Authority may require an electricity licensee to prepare and file with the Authority such emergency plans in accordance with, and as may be specified in, its licence and the market rules.

(2) The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, direct an electricity licensee to implement an emergency plan prepared by that licensee on one or more occasions and with such modifications as the Minister may, from time to time, consider necessary.

Contestable consumers

41.—(1) The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations prescribing the criteria that must be met by a consumer in order to be classified as a contestable consumer.

(2) A market support services licensee shall provide market support services to a contestable consumer in accordance with this Act and its licence, and on terms and conditions approved by the Authority.

(3) A contestable consumer shall purchase electricity for consumption on his own premises in accordance with any one of the following options:
 * (a) purchase electricity from a retail electricity licensee on mutually agreed terms and conditions;
 * (b) subject to subsection (4), purchase electricity directly from any wholesale electricity market at prevailing market prices; or
 * (c) purchase electricity indirectly from any wholesale electricity market through a market support services licensee at prevailing market prices.