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Committee Report

The Committee tabled its Report No. 7, 55th Parliament - Energy and Water Ombudsman Amendment Bill 2015 on 29 October 2015.  The Bill was passed with amendment on 10 November 2015.

View:    Report No. 7, 55th Parliament - Energy and Water Ombudsman Amendment Bill 2015 
View:    Government response - Report No. 7 
View:    Minister’s speech introducing the Bill into the Queensland Parliament 
View:    Energy and Water Ombudsman Amendment Bill 2015 
View:    Explanatory Notes to the Energy and Water Ombudsman Amendment Bill 2015

About the Bill

The Explanatory Notes state the Bill has the following objectives:

• allow non-residential electricity customers consuming between 100 and 160 megawatt hours of electricity per year access to the dispute resolution services of the Energy and Water Ombudsman Queensland (EWOQ)
• extent the functions of EWOQ to allow it to become a recognised External Dispute Resolution scheme in order to deal with credit reporting complaints in relation to the misuse of a customer’s credit information
• enable EWOQ to disclose customer identifying information about complainants to their respective energy and water entities for billing purposes.

Inquiry Timeline

Submissions closed:     1 October 2015 - see "View Submissions" tab above
Public briefing:             14 October 2015 - transcript
Public hearing:              14 October 2015 - transcript
Report tabled:               29 October 2015 - report