S.L. 545.41 Art. 20Customer accounts.

(1) Bills shall be issued to customers for such periods as the distribution system operator may determine either generally or with respect to specific customers or classes of customers.

(2) The distribution system operator may request provisional payment on account from any customer. The said provisional payments shall be calculated on the basis of:

(a) the estimated average daily consumption of the customer; or

(b) the estimated average daily consumption of customer of a similar class as that of the customer:

Provided that the interval between such requests for provisional payment may not be less than one (1) month and the distribution system operator, on a request made by a customer, may modify such requests for provisional payment in the light of the circumstances of the particular case.

(3) For the purposes of calculating any bill to be issued to request payments from a customer, fractions of less than one cent in the total amount due by the customer shall not be considered.

(4) Interest at the rate of zero point seven five per cent (0.75%) per month, calculated daily, shall be charged to customers on all amounts due irrespective of the period to which the invoice refers if the amount indicated in such invoice is not settled within forty-five

(45) days of the date specified therein:

Provided that for all amounts still due at the expiry of the aforementioned forty-five (45) days interest shall only be charged after the fifteenth day, for the final thirty (30) days of the said forty-five

(45) day period, and thereafter, for each additional thirty (30) days or part thereof.