Electricity Amendment Act 1973
Electricity Amendment Act 1973
Electricity Amendment Act 1973
Electricity Amendment Act 1973
Public Act |
1973 No 60 |
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Date of assent |
21 November 1973 |
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Contents
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 1973, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electricity Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Committees
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 8, the following section:
“8a
“(1)
The Minister may from time to time appoint such committees comprising one or more members as he thinks fit to advise or otherwise assist the Minister or General Manager on such matters relating to the functions of the Department as the Minister may specify.
“(2)
Every member of a committee shall hold office at the pleasure of the Minister.
“(3)
Subject to any directions given to it by the Minister, every committee may regulate its own procedure.
“(4)
Every such committee is hereby declared to be a statutory Board within the meaning of the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951.
“(5)
There may, if the Minister so directs, be paid to any member of a committee, out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose,—
“(a)
Remuneration by way of fees, salary, or allowances in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951; and
“(b)
Travelling allowances and travelling expenses in accordance with that Act in respect of time spent travelling in the service of such committee—
and that Act shall apply accordingly.
“(6)
No person shall, by reason only of his being a member of such a committee, be regarded as being employed in the State services for the purposes of the State Services Act 1962 or in the Government service for the purposes of the Superannuation Act 1956.”
3 Delegation of powers by General Manager
Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (6) the words “to whom”
, and substituting the words “by whom”
.
This Act is administered in the New Zealand Electricity Department.