Section 11: Commission’s directive respecting eligible customers.

(1) From the commencement of this Act, it shall be the responsibility of the Commission to issue directives specifying the class or classes of end-use customers that may constitute eligible customers at every market stage recognised under this Act or the market rules.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the Commission shall monitor the development of the electricity market during transitional, medium and long-term stages of the market indicating in a report such preconditions as the Commission has determined as being ripe for the declaration of eligible Customers including the timing and modalities of eligibility to be followed by the Commission to make its declaration at every market stage.
(3) In issuing its directive on eligible customers under subsection (1), the Commission shall further specify the conditions that must be observed to ensure fair and effective implementation of the classes of eligible customers listed in the declaration and to ensure that electrical energy to be made available to eligible customers under the Commission’s declaration under this section is not being supplied to other end-use customers.
(4) The Commission shall have the power to review any class or classes of eligible customers already declared by the Minister prior to the commencement of this Act.