Provision of Consumption Data for Permitted Purposes. (1) The Trader must supply (or procure that its Metering Equipment Provider supplies) the requested Consumption Data to the Distributor if:
(a) the purposes for which the Distributor will use the Consumption Data are Permitted Purposes;
(b) the persons to whom the Consumption Data will be disclosed by the Distributor are persons who are permitted to access the Consumption Data under this Agreement; and
(c) the frequency of access requested by the Distributor is no more than once every six months, unless otherwise agreed by the parties in accordance with clause 4.
(2) If the Trader is required to supply Consumption Data under this clause, the Trader must supply (or procure that its Metering Equipment Provider supplies) the requested Consumption Data within 10 Working Days of the Distributor’s request, and at six monthly intervals after that if the Distributor’s request is for ongoing access to the Consumption Data.
(3) When the Trader supplies Consumption Data in accordance with subclause (2), the Trader must:
(a) for all time of use meters to which the Consumption Data relates, supply half hourly data collected from the relevant Metering Equipment or Metering Equipment Provider in accordance with EIEP3;
(b) for all other meters to which the Consumption Data relates, supply non-half hourly data at the frequency for which it was collected; and
(c) use reasonable endeavours to provide the Consumption Data in a format requested by the Distributor, or if the Trader is not able to provide the Consumption Data in the format requested by the Distributor, provide the Consumption Data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format; and
(d) not do anything that could introduce a virus, Trojan horse, malicious code or similar when transmitting the Consumption Data, and must ensure the Consumption Data is transmitted in an encrypted form that is current best practice and commonly supported.
(4) Despite subclause (2), the Trader will not be responsible for any delay in providing Consumption Data to the Distributor due to circumstances beyond its control.
