New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 1 April 2008
| Public Act | 1976 No 71 |
| Date of assent | 7 December 1976 |
| Commencement | 7 December 1976 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Economic Development.
4 Levy on natural gas and coal
5 Rates of levy may be altered by Order in Council
7 Levy on certain energy resources may be remitted or reduced by Order in Council
9 Secretary may require other returns to be furnished
10 Presumption as to authority
Part 3
Payment, assessment, and recovery of levy
13 Limitation of time for amendment of assessment
14 Appeal from assessment to High Court
15 Obligation to pay levy not suspended by appeal
16 Additional levy for default in payment of levy
Part 4
Refunds and relief from levy
19 Relief in cases of serious hardship
22 Information may charge several offences
23 Information may be laid within 10 years
25 Secretary may declare person to be agent of another person
26 Relation of principal and agent arising in effect
27 Liability of new companies for levy payable by former companies with substantially the same shareholders or under the same control
28 Liability of agent of absentee principal for returns and levy
30 Liability of principal not affected
31 Effect of imposition or alteration of levy on agreements for sale and prices of energy resources
32 Power of Secretary to prescribe forms
33 Evidence of forms, returns, assessments, and financial transactions
34 Secretary's powers of inspection and inquiry
35 Chief Inspector of Coal Mines to decide what is lignite
36 Measurement of energy resources and keeping of records
38 Amendments to Ministry of Energy Resources Act 1972 [Repealed]
An Act to make provision for the imposition, assessment, and collection of a levy on certain energy resources produced in New Zealand
