Electricity Amendment Act 1967
Electricity Amendment Act 1967
Electricity Amendment Act 1967
Electricity Amendment Act 1967
Public Act |
1967 No 74 |
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Date of assent |
23 November 1967 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Electricity Act 1945
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 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electricity Act 1945 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Term of office of members of Rural Electrical Reticulation Council
Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:
“(3)
With respect to the members of the Council appointed under paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section 7 of this Act and holding office on the commencement of this sub section, the following provisions shall apply:
“(a)
The term of office of one member shall expire with the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, the term of office of another member shall expire with the thirtieth day of April, nine teen hundred and sixty-nine, and the term of office of the other member shall expire with the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventy:
“(b)
The member whose term is to expire with the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall be determined by agreement of the three members, and the member whose term is to expire with the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, shall be determined by agreement of the two members then remaining, and failing agreement on either occasion the member then to retire shall be determined by lot in such manner as the Council shall determine.”
This Act is administered in the New Zealand Electricity Department.