What are the legalities around this? Brief Rundown on this.
Contact energy put a Disconnection request through to Wells for our Unit that is was apparently vacant but the unit never has been vacant we are just now with another retailer.
The only notice that we get is when we are contacted by the tech sent out to the site to disconnect the supply.
The Tech was told not to disconnect and to leave the site, He refused and pulled the fuses from a Private pillar on private property.
Upon doing this I have spent most of my day on the phone and lost time and a bucket load of money in the process.
Contact claim they are not the culprit, but when the lines company tell me that they had the request from contact and the contractor sent to do the disconnection "Wells" tell me it was contact, it kind of looks like they are trying to get out of this one.
Contact were adamant that the unit was Vacant and that they are the retailer but they didn't want to listen to me trying to explain that they have not been the retailer for at least 5 months.
We own the entire block of industrial units, and the land underneath them, the pillar is bang smack in the middle and was installed by us not Counties, so technically is on private property.
My question is how is a retailer allowed to disconnect a supply without consent or permission to enter the property?
The retailer surely cant override a current retailer if there is an ongoing supply with another retailer without the permission of the account holder or land owner can they?