Electricity Amendment Act 1975

Public Act		1975 No 72
Date of assent		9 October 1975

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Transmission lines
3	Restriction on Electrical Supply Authorities in respect of charges for resale of electricity supplied by Department
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Electricity Act 1968

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Electricity Amendment Act 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electricity Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Transmission lines

Section 14(3) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the expression “4 chains”, and substituting the expression “80 metres”.

3 Restriction on Electrical Supply Authorities in respect of charges for resale of electricity supplied by Department

The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 52, the following section:

“52a

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law, where the Department supplies electricity in bulk to an Electrical Supply Authority for resale to the corporation of any city, borough, county, or district, the price or tariff charged by the Authority to the corporation for the electricity shall not be greater than the aggregate of—

“(a)

The tariff charged for the electricity by the Department to the Authority; and

“(b)

A further sum or tariff sufficient to meet the actual cost incurred by that Authority in delivering the electricity to the corporation.”

This Act is administered in the New Zealand Electricity Department.

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