Common use of Billing Options Clause in Contracts

Billing Options. 4.1.1 As of the Effective Date, the Gas Distributor shall have the ability to accommodate a rate‐ready form of gas distributor‐consolidated billing. On and after the date on which the Gas Distributor implements the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(d) or 4.1.4(d), as applicable, the Gas Distributor shall provide rate‐ready and bill‐ready forms of gas distributor‐ consolidated billing on an individual customer account basis. 4.1.2 Where the Gas Vendor chooses gas distributor‐consolidated billing, the terms and conditions of billing, collection and payment shall be in accordance with Appendix B. The Gas Distributor shall bear the risk of consumer non‐payment for the entire bill, including gas commodity charges. 4.1.3 Vendor‐Consolidated Billing and Split Billing (a) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for vendor‐consolidated billing or for split billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option, which shall be consistent with the applicable provisions of the Rule. (b) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address billing, collection, payment, security arrangements, and calculation, collection and remittance of HST and, for vendor‐consolidated billing, the obligation of the Gas Vendor to include any safety information and other information required by the Board in bills to consumers. (c) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (d) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(a) within the time period determined by the Board.

Billing Options. 4.1.1 (a) As of the Effective Date, the Gas Distributor shall have the ability to accommodate a rate‐ready rate-ready form of gas distributor‐consolidated distributor-consolidated billing. On and after the date on which the Gas Distributor implements the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(d) or 4.1.4(d4.1(g), as applicable, the Gas Distributor shall provide rate‐ready rate-ready and bill‐ready bill-ready forms of gas distributor‐ distributor-consolidated billing on an individual customer account basis. 4.1.2 (b) Where the Gas Vendor chooses gas distributor‐consolidated billingdistributor-consolidated billing (including bill-ready and rate- ready), the terms and conditions of billing, collection and payment shall be in accordance with accordancewith Appendix B. The Gas Distributor shall bear the risk of consumer non‐payment non-payment for the entire bill, including gas commodity competitive services charges. 4.1.3 Vendor‐Consolidated Billing and Split Billing (ac) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing or for split billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option, which shall be consistent with the applicable theapplicable provisions of the Rule. (bd) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address billing, collection, payment, security arrangements, and calculation, collection and remittance of HST GST and, for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing, the obligation of obligationof the Gas Vendor to include any safety information and other information required by the Board in bills to consumers. (ce) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (df) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c) within the time period determined by the Board. (g) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for a bill-ready form of gas distributor-consolidated billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement, which shall be consistent with this Rule. (h) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1(g), or within such longer period as the parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address all necessary changes to the EBT standards set out in Appendix D, including provision for testing and cutover to the implementation of bill-ready distributor-consolidated billing. (i) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1(g), or within such longer period as the partiesmay agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (j) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1(g) within the time period determined by the Board.

Billing Options. 4.1.1 (a) As of the Effective Date, the Gas Distributor shall have the ability to accommodate a rate‐ready rate-ready form of gas distributor‐consolidated distributor-consolidated billing. On and after the date on which the Gas Distributor implements the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(d) or 4.1.4(d4.1(g), as applicable, the Gas Distributor shall provide rate‐ready rate-ready and bill‐ready bill-ready forms of gas distributor‐ distributor-consolidated billing on an individual customer account basis. 4.1.2 (b) Where the Gas Vendor chooses gas distributor‐consolidated distributor-consolidated billing, the terms and conditions of billing, collection and payment shall be in accordance with Appendix B. The Gas Distributor shall bear the risk of consumer non‐payment non-payment for the entire bill, including gas commodity charges. 4.1.3 Vendor‐Consolidated Billing and Split Billing (ac) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing or for split billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option, which shall be consistent with the applicable provisions of the Rule. (bd) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address billing, collection, payment, security arrangements, and calculation, collection and remittance of HST GST and, for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing, the obligation of the Gas Vendor to include any safety information and other information required by the Board in bills to consumers. (ce) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (df) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c) within the time period determined by the Board. (g) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for a bill-ready form of gas distributor-consolidated billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement, which shall be consistent with this Rule. (h) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1(g), or within such longer period as the parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address all necessary changes to the EBT standards set out in Appendix D, including provision for testing and cutover to the implementation of bill-ready distributor- consolidated billing. (i) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1(g), or within such longer period as the parties may agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (j) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1(g) within the time period determined by the Board.”

Billing Options. 4.1.1 (a) As of the Effective Date, the Gas Distributor shall have the ability to accommodate a rate‐ready rate-ready form of gas distributor‐consolidated distributor-consolidated billing. On and after the date on which the Gas Distributor implements the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(d) or 4.1.4(d4.1(g), as applicable, the Gas Distributor shall provide rate‐ready rate-ready and bill‐ready bill-ready forms of gas distributor‐ distributor-consolidated billing on an individual customer account basis. 4.1.2 (b) Where the Gas Vendor chooses gas distributor‐consolidated billingdistributor-consolidated billing (including bill-ready and rate- ready), the terms and conditions of billing, collection and payment shall be in accordance with Appendix B. The Gas Distributor shall bear the risk of consumer non‐payment non-payment for the entire bill, including gas commodity competitive services charges. 4.1.3 Vendor‐Consolidated Billing and Split Billing (ac) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing or for split billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option, which shall be consistent with the applicable provisions of the Rule. (bd) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address billing, collection, payment, security arrangements, and calculation, collection and remittance of HST GST and, for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing, the obligation of obligationof the Gas Vendor to include any safety information and other information required by the Board in bills to consumers. (ce) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (df) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c) within the time period determined by the Board. (g) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for a bill-ready form of gas distributor-consolidated billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement, which shall be consistent with this Rule. (h) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1(g), or within such longer period as the parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address all necessary changes to the EBT standards set out in Appendix D, including provision for testing and cutover to the implementation of bill-ready distributor-consolidated billing. (i) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1(g), or within such longer period as the parties may agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (j) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1(g) within the time period determined by the Board.

Billing Options. 4.1.1 ‌ (a) As of the Effective Date, the Gas Distributor shall have the ability to accommodate a rate‐ready rate-ready form of gas distributor‐consolidated distributor-consolidated billing. On and after As of the date on which the Gas Distributor implements the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(d) or 4.1.4(d), as applicableBill-ready Date, the Gas Distributor shall have the ability to accommodate a bill-ready form of gas distributor-consolidated billing, and shall as of that date provide rate‐ready rate-ready and bill‐ready bill-ready forms of gas distributor‐ distributor-consolidated billing on an individual customer account basis. 4.1.2 (b) Where the Gas Vendor chooses gas distributor‐consolidated distributor-consolidated billing, the terms and conditions of billing, collection and payment shall be in accordance with Appendix B. The Gas Distributor shall bear the risk of consumer non‐payment non-payment for the entire bill, including gas commodity charges. 4.1.3 Vendor‐Consolidated Billing and Split Billing (ac) Upon written request from the Gas Vendor for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing or for split billing, the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor shall negotiate in good faith the necessary amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option, which shall be consistent with the applicable provisions of the Rule. (bd) Within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Gas Distributor shall submit to the Board for approval the proposed amendments to this Agreement referred to in that section. At a minimum, the proposed amendments shall address billing, collection, payment, security arrangements, and calculation, collection and remittance of HST GST and, for vendor‐consolidated vendor-consolidated billing, the obligation of the Gas Vendor to include any safety information and other information required by the Board in bills to consumers. (ce) If the Gas Distributor and the Gas Vendor cannot agree on the proposed amendments to this Agreement in respect of the requested billing option within 60 days of receipt by the Gas Distributor of the written request referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree, the Parties shall refer the dispute to the Board for determination and the Parties shall amend this Agreement accordingly. (df) The Gas Distributor shall implement the change in billing option referred to in section 4.1.3(a4.1(c) within the time period determined by the Board.