https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=113577 Existing consumers who execute a fresh agreement only for load reduction or alteration remain old registered consumers under the regulatory scheme, so the minimum guarantee period cannot be restarted from that later agreement. Regulation 17(ii) must be read with Regulation 17(vi): the former governs liability where supply is disconnected before the compulsory period, while the latter preserves the status of an existing consumer despite a fresh agreement for change of load or related alteration. On that construction, a post-disconnection demand for minimum guarantee charges treated the petitioner as a new consumer and was beyond the regulatory authority, so the demand and connected orders were quashed. en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:18:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=113577 Existing consumers who execute a fresh agreement only for load reduction or alteration remain old registered consumers under the regulatory scheme, so the minimum guarantee period cannot be restarted from that later agreement. Regulation 17(ii) must be read with Regulation 17(vi): the former governs liability where supply is disconnected before the compulsory period, while the latter preserves the status of an existing consumer despite a fresh agreement for change of load or related alteration. On that construction, a post-disconnection demand for minimum guarantee charges treated the petitioner as a new consumer and was beyond the regulatory authority, so the demand and connected orders were quashed. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=113577