Common use of Reconfiguration and Permanent Removal of Connection Assets Clause in Contracts

Reconfiguration and Permanent Removal of Connection Assets. (a) Transpower may only permanently remove a Connection Asset from service or permanently change the configuration of the Connection Assets from that set out in Schedule 4 (Connection Assets): (1) in the case of a Connection Asset or Connection Assets to which the Customer is the only designated transmission customer connected, or is the only designated transmission customer with a transmission agreement with Transpower requiring Transpower to make the Connection Asset or Connection Assets available, if the Customer agrees to such removal or reconfiguration, subject to Transpower and the Customer complying with rules 5.1 to 5.3 of section II of part F of the Electricity Governance Rules [clauses 12.35 to 12.37 of the Code]; or (2) in the case of a Connection Asset or Connection Assets to which more than one designated transmission customer is connected, and the transmission agreement or transmission agreements between Transpower and the other designated transmission customer(s) require Transpower to make the Connection Asset or Connection Assets available, in accordance with rule 5.7 or 5.8 of section II of part F of the Electricity Governance Rules [clauses 12.41 or 12.42 of the Code]. (b) The Customer may not unreasonably decline to agree to the removal of a Connection Asset or the reconfiguration of the Connection Assets under clause 40.3(a)(2), taking into account the net benefits to other designated transmission customers and to end-users of electricity that might arise from the removal or reconfiguration.